Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences / / Wahida Khandker.

A study of pathological concepts of animal life in Continental philosophy from Bergson to HarawayUsing 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 a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2014
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Crosscurrents : CROSS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Forces of Nature: Evolution, Divergence, Decimation
  • 2. Pathological Life and the Limits of Medical Perception
  • 3. Violence, Pathos and Animal Life in European Philosophy and Critical Animal Studies
  • 4. From Animal- Machines to Cybernetic Organisms . . .
  • 5. Organicism and Complexity: Whitehead and Kauffman
  • 6. Aped, Mongrelised and Scapegoated: Adventures in Biopolitics and Transgenics in Haraway’s Animal Worlds
  • Epilogue: A Vicious Circle
  • Bibliography
  • Index