Overview
- Argues that animals are key to human identity and culture at all levels
- Written by a veterinarian, ethologist, and philosopher
- Presents a dialog between the humanities and the natural sciences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress (NAHP, volume 4)
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About this book
The research presents a dialogue between the humanities and the natural sciences. It challenges the separation and oppression of animals with a post-humanism steeped in the traditions of the Italian Renaissance.
Readers discover a vision of the human as a species informed by an intertwining with animals. The human being is not constructed by an onto-poetic process, but rather by close relations w
ith otherness. The human system is increasingly unstable and, therefore, more hybrid.
The argument it presents interests scholars, thinkers, and researchers. It also appeals to anyone who wants to delve intothe deep animal–human bond and its philosophical, cultural, political instances.
The author is a veterinarian, ethologist, and philosopher. He uses cognitive science, zooanthropology, and philosophy to engage in a series of empirical, theoretical, and practice-based engagements with animal life. In the process, he argues that animals are key to human identity and culture at all levels.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Over the Human
Book Subtitle: Post-humanism and the Concept of Animal Epiphany
Authors: Roberto Marchesini
Series Title: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62581-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62580-5Published: 02 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87346-6Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62581-2Published: 26 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2510-442X
Series E-ISSN: 2510-4438
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 160
Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Nature, Anthropology, Ontology, Ethics