The Animals in Us – We in Animals
Szymon Wrobel
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- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2014. 285 pp.
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- Introduction: Intellectual Motivation to Undertake the Subject of Animality
- The Modern Privilege of Life
- Animals are Good People Too
- Wegen dem Pferd. The Fear and the Animal Life
- 1. The Primal Father was a Gorilla
- 2. Psychotic Foreclosures—There is no Animal!
- 3. Animal Hysteria, an Animal is not Animal Enough
- 4. Neurotic: “I Do Not Want It But My Animal Nature Demands It!”
- 5. Conclusions
- 1. Experiencing Animality: Biophilia as an Organizing Principle of Animal Studies
- 2. Biophilia as Naturalism
- 3. Reviving Biophilia: The Potential of Animal Studies
- 4. Human Uniqueness: An Academic and Cultural Barrier to Biophilia
- 5. Counterbalancing Human Uniqueness: Including Rustic Authority in Animal Studies
- 1. A Strange Automaton or Beast
- 2. Life De-Organized
- 3. Loneliness
- 4. Yahoos and Houyhnhnms
- 5. Boredom
- 6. The Desert Island
- 7. The Political Animal
- 8. Humanism
- 9. The Carnival of Animals/ Carnaval Des Animaux I
- 10. The Carnival of Animals/ Carnaval Des Animaux II
- 11. “Unanimal Mankind”
- 12. Unimal
- 13. The Redemptive Other
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On the Lebens-Philosophical Background to Plessner’s Anthropology
- 3. Plessner on Boundaries and Delimitation
- 4. Eccentric Positionality
- 5. Plessner’s Social Philosophy
- 6. Concluding Observations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Individual Animals?
- 3. Man And Animal as Modes of Being
- 4. Why Become Animal?
- Evil and the Human/Animal Divide: From Pliny to Paré
- The Cloth of Man. Contribution to a Study on The Human-Animal Pathos
- From Agamben to Saville’s Bellies. Transgression into the Animal Condition in Post-Humanity, Primitive Humanity and Contemporary Art
- Animals Hidden in Notes and Instruments
- I
- II
- Not Being Angel. Manichaeism as an Obstacle to Thinking of a New Approach to Animality.
- Michel de Montaigne’s Atheology of Animality as an Example of Emancipation Tool for Modern Humanity
- 1. Breeding
- 2. Disturbance
- 3. Totem
- 4. Names
- 5. Domestication
- 6. Beetle
- 7. Reproduction: Party of Life
- Quia Ego Nominor Leo: Barthes, Stereotypes and Aesop’s Animal
- Gustave Flaubert or Parrot’s Gaze
- Eating Well or Witold Gombrowicz’s Cosmos
- Talking Animalish in Science-fiction Creations. Some Thoughts on Literary Zoomorphism
- Wolves and Women: À Propos the Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Book
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Introduction: Intellectual Motivation to Undertake the Subject of Animality
- The Modern Privilege of Life
- Animals are Good People Too
- Wegen dem Pferd. The Fear and the Animal Life
- 1. The Primal Father was a Gorilla
- 2. Psychotic Foreclosures—There is no Animal!
- 3. Animal Hysteria, an Animal is not Animal Enough
- 4. Neurotic: “I Do Not Want It But My Animal Nature Demands It!”
- 5. Conclusions
- 1. Experiencing Animality: Biophilia as an Organizing Principle of Animal Studies
- 2. Biophilia as Naturalism
- 3. Reviving Biophilia: The Potential of Animal Studies
- 4. Human Uniqueness: An Academic and Cultural Barrier to Biophilia
- 5. Counterbalancing Human Uniqueness: Including Rustic Authority in Animal Studies
- 1. A Strange Automaton or Beast
- 2. Life De-Organized
- 3. Loneliness
- 4. Yahoos and Houyhnhnms
- 5. Boredom
- 6. The Desert Island
- 7. The Political Animal
- 8. Humanism
- 9. The Carnival of Animals/ Carnaval Des Animaux I
- 10. The Carnival of Animals/ Carnaval Des Animaux II
- 11. “Unanimal Mankind”
- 12. Unimal
- 13. The Redemptive Other
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On the Lebens-Philosophical Background to Plessner’s Anthropology
- 3. Plessner on Boundaries and Delimitation
- 4. Eccentric Positionality
- 5. Plessner’s Social Philosophy
- 6. Concluding Observations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Individual Animals?
- 3. Man And Animal as Modes of Being
- 4. Why Become Animal?
- Evil and the Human/Animal Divide: From Pliny to Paré
- The Cloth of Man. Contribution to a Study on The Human-Animal Pathos
- From Agamben to Saville’s Bellies. Transgression into the Animal Condition in Post-Humanity, Primitive Humanity and Contemporary Art
- Animals Hidden in Notes and Instruments
- I
- II
- Not Being Angel. Manichaeism as an Obstacle to Thinking of a New Approach to Animality.
- Michel de Montaigne’s Atheology of Animality as an Example of Emancipation Tool for Modern Humanity
- 1. Breeding
- 2. Disturbance
- 3. Totem
- 4. Names
- 5. Domestication
- 6. Beetle
- 7. Reproduction: Party of Life
- Quia Ego Nominor Leo: Barthes, Stereotypes and Aesop’s Animal
- Gustave Flaubert or Parrot’s Gaze
- Eating Well or Witold Gombrowicz’s Cosmos
- Talking Animalish in Science-fiction Creations. Some Thoughts on Literary Zoomorphism
- Wolves and Women: À Propos the Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Book
Evil and the Human/Animal Divide: From Pliny to Paré
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Evil and the Human/Animal Divide:From Pliny to Paré
Kathleen Perry Long
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One striking difference between humans and animals, at least in ancient and medieval thought, is the human capacity for evil. In his Natural History, Pliny portrays elephants and some other animals as superior to humans, arguing that they do not harm their own kind. Elephants are particularly ethical, refusing to harm other creatures, even at the peril of their own lives. The monstrous human races are described in neutral terms. Caesar, on the other hand, is portrayed as a destructive if admirable monster that has destroyed many millions of human lives. This representation of the animal and the half-human monster as morally admirable or at least neutral is modified by Saint Augustine and subsequent theologians who associate the animal and the monstrous with the divine, the human with imperfect knowledge and character. In this context, it is not surprising that Marie de France portrays her werewolf as morally superior to his human wife. But in the wake of late medieval discussions of the devil, particularly in the context of theories of witchcraft, animals become associated with evil. Most particularly, creatures that blur the line between human and animal are presented as evil; the animal-human hybrids in Ambroise Paré’s Des monstres et prodiges offer a striking example of this association.
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Introduction: Intellectual Motivation to Undertake the Subject of Animality
- The Modern Privilege of Life
- Animals are Good People Too
- Wegen dem Pferd. The Fear and the Animal Life
- 1. The Primal Father was a Gorilla
- 2. Psychotic Foreclosures—There is no Animal!
- 3. Animal Hysteria, an Animal is not Animal Enough
- 4. Neurotic: “I Do Not Want It But My Animal Nature Demands It!”
- 5. Conclusions
- 1. Experiencing Animality: Biophilia as an Organizing Principle of Animal Studies
- 2. Biophilia as Naturalism
- 3. Reviving Biophilia: The Potential of Animal Studies
- 4. Human Uniqueness: An Academic and Cultural Barrier to Biophilia
- 5. Counterbalancing Human Uniqueness: Including Rustic Authority in Animal Studies
- 1. A Strange Automaton or Beast
- 2. Life De-Organized
- 3. Loneliness
- 4. Yahoos and Houyhnhnms
- 5. Boredom
- 6. The Desert Island
- 7. The Political Animal
- 8. Humanism
- 9. The Carnival of Animals/ Carnaval Des Animaux I
- 10. The Carnival of Animals/ Carnaval Des Animaux II
- 11. “Unanimal Mankind”
- 12. Unimal
- 13. The Redemptive Other
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On the Lebens-Philosophical Background to Plessner’s Anthropology
- 3. Plessner on Boundaries and Delimitation
- 4. Eccentric Positionality
- 5. Plessner’s Social Philosophy
- 6. Concluding Observations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Individual Animals?
- 3. Man And Animal as Modes of Being
- 4. Why Become Animal?
- Evil and the Human/Animal Divide: From Pliny to Paré
- The Cloth of Man. Contribution to a Study on The Human-Animal Pathos
- From Agamben to Saville’s Bellies. Transgression into the Animal Condition in Post-Humanity, Primitive Humanity and Contemporary Art
- Animals Hidden in Notes and Instruments
- I
- II
- Not Being Angel. Manichaeism as an Obstacle to Thinking of a New Approach to Animality.
- Michel de Montaigne’s Atheology of Animality as an Example of Emancipation Tool for Modern Humanity
- 1. Breeding
- 2. Disturbance
- 3. Totem
- 4. Names
- 5. Domestication
- 6. Beetle
- 7. Reproduction: Party of Life
- Quia Ego Nominor Leo: Barthes, Stereotypes and Aesop’s Animal
- Gustave Flaubert or Parrot’s Gaze
- Eating Well or Witold Gombrowicz’s Cosmos
- Talking Animalish in Science-fiction Creations. Some Thoughts on Literary Zoomorphism
- Wolves and Women: À Propos the Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Book
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Introduction: Intellectual Motivation to Undertake the Subject of Animality
- The Modern Privilege of Life
- Animals are Good People Too
- Wegen dem Pferd. The Fear and the Animal Life
- 1. The Primal Father was a Gorilla
- 2. Psychotic Foreclosures—There is no Animal!
- 3. Animal Hysteria, an Animal is not Animal Enough
- 4. Neurotic: “I Do Not Want It But My Animal Nature Demands It!”
- 5. Conclusions
- 1. Experiencing Animality: Biophilia as an Organizing Principle of Animal Studies
- 2. Biophilia as Naturalism
- 3. Reviving Biophilia: The Potential of Animal Studies
- 4. Human Uniqueness: An Academic and Cultural Barrier to Biophilia
- 5. Counterbalancing Human Uniqueness: Including Rustic Authority in Animal Studies
- 1. A Strange Automaton or Beast
- 2. Life De-Organized
- 3. Loneliness
- 4. Yahoos and Houyhnhnms
- 5. Boredom
- 6. The Desert Island
- 7. The Political Animal
- 8. Humanism
- 9. The Carnival of Animals/ Carnaval Des Animaux I
- 10. The Carnival of Animals/ Carnaval Des Animaux II
- 11. “Unanimal Mankind”
- 12. Unimal
- 13. The Redemptive Other
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On the Lebens-Philosophical Background to Plessner’s Anthropology
- 3. Plessner on Boundaries and Delimitation
- 4. Eccentric Positionality
- 5. Plessner’s Social Philosophy
- 6. Concluding Observations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Individual Animals?
- 3. Man And Animal as Modes of Being
- 4. Why Become Animal?
- Evil and the Human/Animal Divide: From Pliny to Paré
- The Cloth of Man. Contribution to a Study on The Human-Animal Pathos
- From Agamben to Saville’s Bellies. Transgression into the Animal Condition in Post-Humanity, Primitive Humanity and Contemporary Art
- Animals Hidden in Notes and Instruments
- I
- II
- Not Being Angel. Manichaeism as an Obstacle to Thinking of a New Approach to Animality.
- Michel de Montaigne’s Atheology of Animality as an Example of Emancipation Tool for Modern Humanity
- 1. Breeding
- 2. Disturbance
- 3. Totem
- 4. Names
- 5. Domestication
- 6. Beetle
- 7. Reproduction: Party of Life
- Quia Ego Nominor Leo: Barthes, Stereotypes and Aesop’s Animal
- Gustave Flaubert or Parrot’s Gaze
- Eating Well or Witold Gombrowicz’s Cosmos
- Talking Animalish in Science-fiction Creations. Some Thoughts on Literary Zoomorphism
- Wolves and Women: À Propos the Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Book