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Immanence and the Animal - A Conceptual Inquiry (Hardcover)
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Immanence and the Animal - A Conceptual Inquiry (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
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This book reexamines the concept of the animal on the plane of
immanence, as opposed to the traditional viewpoint founded on the
plane of transcendence. Following Deleuze and Guattari's notion
that philosophy is a discipline of creating concepts, this book
traces how the concept of the animal was created in the history of
philosophy through re-reading the works of Descartes, Kant,
Heidegger, Derrida and Levinas. Their theories show that the
concept of the animal was constructed on the "plane of
transcendence" as subservient to the self-serving human, who
represents the animal as a negative entity devoid of reason,
ethics, the ability to enter into political alliances or even die.
With this perspective and a range of theories from thinkers such as
Spinoza, Nancy, Haraway and Braidotti as the groundwork, a new
positive concept of the animal, operating on the plane of
immanence, is sketched out, compelling a reappraisal of the
relationships between body and thought, ethics and politics, or
life and death. With comprehensive interpretations of the views of
several key philosophers, from Kant and Heidegger to Deleuze,
Derrida and Agamben, this book will be valuable for scholars of
theoretical animal studies and continental philosophy interested in
the philosophical significance of the animal question.
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