Beyond nature : : animal liberation, Marxism, and critical theory / / by Marco Maurizi.

In Beyond Nature Maurizi tackles the animal question from an unprecedented perspective: strongly criticizing the abstract moralism that has always characterized animal rights activism, the author proposes a historical-materialistic analysis of the relationship between humans and non-humans. By contr...

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Superior document:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 235
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 235.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Soul of Animals under Socialism
  • 2 Did You Say 'Dialectics'?
  • 3 Singer & Sons
  • 4 Against Animal Liberation Ideology
  • 5 Critical Failures
  • 6 Hegelian Animal Spirits
  • 7 The Structure of the Book
  • Part 1 Critique of Animal Liberation Ideology
  • 1 What Is Antispeciesism?
  • 1 Three Different Definitions
  • 2 A Sociological Fallacy
  • 3 Metaphysical and Historical Antispeciesism
  • 4 Animal Liberation and Human Liberation?
  • 2 On the Genesis of Speciesism
  • 1 The Ambiguity of Speciesism
  • 2 The Origin of Speciesism
  • 3 How?
  • 4 Speciesism and Human Liberation
  • 3 Animal Right Activism and Its Discontents
  • 1 Two Forms of Praxis: Conflict and Inclusion
  • 2 Conflict
  • 3 Inclusion
  • 4 The 'Bottom-Up' Change Is a Disguised Hierarchical Change
  • 5 Veganism Is Not a Mode of Production
  • Part 2 Marxism and Animal Liberation
  • 4 Marxism and Animal Rights
  • 1 One Struggle?
  • 2 Animal Rights vs. Marx
  • 3 The Role of Animals in Marxism
  • 4 The Real Problem: Animal Alienation
  • 5 Marxism and the Repression of Nature
  • 1 Animal and Capital
  • 2 History and Natural History in Marx and Engels
  • 3 From Primitive Communism to the Early States
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 6 The Dialectical Animal
  • 1 Animality and Anthropopoiesis
  • 2 From the Institute for Social Research to the 'Frankfurt School'
  • 3 From Nature to Animals
  • 4 The Structure of Domination
  • 5 The Specific Role of Animals in the General Scheme of Domination
  • 6 The Dialectical Animal
  • 7 Materialistic Solidarity
  • 8 A New 'Dialectics of Nature'
  • 9 The Reconciliation of Nature
  • Part 3 Conclusion: Beyond Nature
  • 7 Towards a Post-Neolithic Society
  • 1 Materialism and Technē
  • 2 Universal History as a Catastrophe
  • 3 The Universal Human Being and the Enlarged Animal Society
  • 4 Rien faire comme une bête
  • 8 The Aporetic Nature of the Theory/Praxis Opposition
  • Epilogue: Antispeciesism and Anticapitalism
  • References
  • Index.