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Author:   Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438498096

ISBN 10:   1438498098
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   01 June 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poetic Species I. Ceasing to Be Animal 1. Zoopoetics: Coetzee's Animals and Philosophy 2. Political Bestiary: On the Uses of Violence 3. Heidegger's Bestiary: The Speechless and Unhistorical Animal II. Not Yet Human 4. Habermas on Human Cloning: The Debate on the Future of the Species 5. Communicative Freedom and Genetic Engineering 6. We Have Never Been Human, or How We Lost Our Humanity: From Habermas and Derrida to Midgley and Haraway by Way of Agamben III. Toward a Companion Species Ethics 7. Animal Is to Kantianism As Jew Is to Fascism: Adorno's Bestiary 8. Interspecies Cosmopolitanism 9. Bestiaries of Extinction: Anthropodicy or Anthropohippology Notes Index

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"""This eloquent discussion brings a range of continental figures and European traditions of philosophy to bear on the question of the animal. From Habermas to Derrida, and all that lies between, Mendieta's discussion is unique and thought-provoking."" — Cynthia Willett, author of Interspecies Ethics"

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Eduardo Mendieta is Professor of Philosophy and Latina/o studies at Penn State University. He is the author of several books, including Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory, also published by SUNY Press.

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