History of Animals

A Philosophy

Bibliographic Data

ID6571629
AuthorsOxana Timofeeva (0000-0002-2344-972X), Slavoj Žižek (0000-0003-4672-6942)
Year2018
Pages192
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHistory of Animals (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5040/9781350012035
OpenAlexW4256551059
ISBN9781350012011, 9781350012035
Open LibraryOL33314830M
LanguageEN
Citations received13

Oxana Timofeeva’s The History of Animals: A Philosophy is an original and ambitious treatment of the “animal question”. While philosophers have always made distinctions between human beings and animals, Timofeeva imagines a world free of such walls and borders. Timofeeva shows the way towards the full acceptance of our animality; an acceptance which does not mean the return to our animal roots, or anything similar. The freedom generated by this acceptance operates through negativity; is an effect of the rejection of the very core of metaphysical philosophy and Christian culture, traditionally opposed to our ‘animal’ nature and seemingly detached from it. With a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, this book is accessible, jargon-free and ideal for students and all those interested in re-imagining how we engage with animals and the environment

Aesthetics · Animals · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Negativity effect · Anthropology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Social Psychology · animals · Animals (Philosophy) · Animals and civilization · Animals in art · Animals in literature · Ethics · History · Social sciences

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