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Author:   Simone Ghelli
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2023 ed.
Weight:   0.457kg
ISBN:  

9783031329814

ISBN 10:   3031329813
Pages:   235
Publication Date:   09 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 1.1 An Animal Suffers for Nothing This Side of Good and Evil.- 1.2 Moderns Knew It: The Radical Challenge of the Suffering Animal.- 1.3 Life Is Weak.- 1.4 The Suffering Animal Faces the Extreme.- 1.5 Biodicies for Free Spirits.- 1.6 Luck of Some, Misfortune of All.- 1.7 Preliminary Notes.- Works Cited.- 2 The Sensitive Cogito: Modern Materialism and Its Legacy.- 2.1 A Shaky Canon.- 2.2 The Animal-Machine, or Rather Descartes’ Dangerous Idea.- 2.3 The Rise of the Suffering Animal.- 2.4 The “Innovative Restoration” of the Rational Animal.- Works Cited.- 3 Life Is Overrated: On Darwin’s Ultimate Materialism.- 3.1 The Evolution of the Suffering Animal.- 3.2 The Coral of Life and the Chance of Equality.- 3.3 The Revolt of Sentient Beings and the Chance of Civilization.- 3.4 There Is Life, Therefore God Cannot Exist.- 3.5 The Suffering Animal Versus the Powerful Animal.- Works Cited.- 4 Humanity as a Matter of Civilization: The Primo Levi Case.- 4.1 Thinking Dehumanization by Experience.- 4.2 The Inegalitarian God and Meaningless Suffering.- 4.3 The Salvation of Civilization.- 4.4 “We Weren’t a Pleasant Sight”.- 4.5 The Salvation of Science.- Works Cited.- 5 The Rise of the Powerful Animal: On Deleuze’s Materialism of Power.- 5.1 The Eclipse of the Suffering Animal.- 5.2 Releasing Life: Hume and Bergson.- 5.3 Releasing the Living: Spinoza and Nietzsche.- 5.4 Becoming the Powerful Animal that We Are.- 5.5 The Powerful Animal Reveals Their True Face.- Works Cited.- 6 Conclusion: The Powerful Animal Encounters the Suffering Animal.- Works Cited.

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Simone Ghelli is a postdoctoral researcher at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy.

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