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Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue that Continental philosophers engaging with 'the animal question' have been rightly accused of shying away from. Now, Wahida Khandker asks whether Continental approaches to animality and organic life will make us reconsider our treatment of non-human animals. By following its historical and philosophical development, she argues that the concept of 'pathological life' as a means of understanding organic life as a whole plays a pivotal role in refiguring the human-animal distinction. She explores the significance of this across philosophy and the life sciences through the work of a number of key thinkers of life and process, from Henri Bergson to Donna Haraway.

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Ranging across a remarkable array of crucial texts in the recent history of philosophy and the life sciences, this book provides both an invaluable critical overview of the work of Whitehead, Canguilhem, Bergson, Haraway, and others on the question of ""life"" and at the same time pursues its own highly original intervention in how we can think our ontological and ethical relation to non-human beings.--Cary Wolfe, Dunlevie Professor of English and Founding Director, 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory, Rice University

"Ranging across a remarkable array of crucial texts in the recent history of philosophy and the life sciences, this book provides both an invaluable critical overview of the work of Whitehead, Canguilhem, Bergson, Haraway, and others on the question of ""life"" and at the same time pursues its own highly original intervention in how we can think our ontological and ethical relation to non-human beings.--Cary Wolfe, Dunlevie Professor of English and Founding Director, 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory, Rice University"

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Wahida Khandker is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has contributed to numerous philosophy journals.

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