What happens to political thought if we take the problematic nature
of the human animal distinction, not as something to be
demonstrated, but rather as a given? What sorts of
animal-existential possibilities are derived by tracking not the
animal but the animal-to-come through the inherited traditions and
institutions that continue to shape prevailing concepts of culture
and politics? Robert Briggs lays out an original interpretation of
Derrida's work which takes the 'question of the animal' beyond the
critique of political and philosophical anthropocentrism. Eschewing
approaches grounded in animal vulnerability, Briggs reviews
theories of power, politics and culture in terms of their capacity
to enable novel images of 'zoopolitics'. Along the way he engages
with recently translated work in the emerging field of
philosophical ethology, including Vinciane Despret's What Would
Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (2016) and Dominique
Lestel's empirical and constructivist phenomenology of human-animal
relations. Through these and other interventions, Briggs departs
from well-established positions in animal studies to develop new
ways of thinking animal politics today.
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