Outside the Anthropological Machine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Outside the Anthropological Machine write by Chiara Mengozzi. This book was released on 2020-05-14. Outside the Anthropological Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species’ arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our being-in-the-world as Homo sapiens, this monograph argues, starts precisely from the way we relate to our closer companion species. The authors gathered here endeavour to find multiple exit strategies from the anthropocentric paradigms that have bound the human and social sciences. Part I investigates the unexplored margins of human history by re-reading historical events, literary texts, and scientific findings from an animal’s perspective, rather than a human’s. Part II explores different forms of human-animal relationships, putting the emphasis on the institutions, spaces, and discourses that frame our interactions with animals. Part III engages with processes of "translation" that aim to render animals’ experience and perception into human words and visual language.
The Open
The Open - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Open write by Giorgio Agamben. This book was released on 2004. The Open available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 'The Open', contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the 'human' has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether.
The Question of the Animal and Religion
The Question of the Animal and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Question of the Animal and Religion write by Aaron S. Gross. This book was released on 2014-12-02. The Question of the Animal and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a powerful case for elevating the category of the animal in the study of religion. Major theorists have almost without exception approached religion as a phenomenon that radically marks humans off from other animals, but Gross rejects this paradigm, instead matching religion more closely with the life sciences to better theorize human nature. Gross begins with a detailed account of the scandals at Agriprocessors and their significance for the American and international Jewish community. He argues that without a proper theorization of "animals and religion," we cannot fully understand religiously and ethically motivated diets and how and why the events at Agriprocessors took place. Subsequent chapters recognize the significance of animals to the study of religion in the work of Ernst Cassirer, Emile Durkheim, Mircea Eliade, Jonathan Z. Smith, and Jacques Derrida and the value of indigenous peoples' understanding of animals to the study of religion in our daily lives. Gross concludes by extending the Agribusiness scandal to the activities at slaughterhouses of all kinds, calling attention to the religiosity informing the regulation of "secular" slaughterhouses and its implications for our relationship with and self-imagination through animals.
Beyond the Anthropological Difference
Beyond the Anthropological Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Anthropological Difference write by Matthew Calarco. This book was released on 2020-07-30. Beyond the Anthropological Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this Element is to provide a novel framework for gaining a critical grasp on the present situation concerning animals. It offers reflections on resisting the established order as well as suggestions on what forms alternative, pro-animal ways of life might take. The central argument of the book is that the search for an anthropological difference - that is, for a marker of human uniqueness determined by way of a sharp human/animal distinction - should be set aside. In place of this traditional way of differentiating human beings from animals, the author sketches an alternative way of thinking and living in relation to animals based on indistinction, a concept that points toward the unexpected and profound ways in which human beings share in animal life, death, and potentiality. The implications of this approach are then examined in view of practical and theoretical discussions in the environmental humanities and related fields.
Beyond Human
Beyond Human - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Human write by Charlie Blake. This book was released on 2012-03-15. Beyond Human available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species.
