Can philosophy conceive of a perfect animal? Can it think of the
animal as anything other than an imperfect human? The book attempts to
rethink the Hegelian dialectic so as to render it capable of assigning
a proper place to the animal, and in particular the beautiful animal,
and to rework the philosophy of nature so as to encompass the fossil.
The fossil itself teaches philosophy and in particular the dialectic
how it must modify itself in order to encompass the beautiful animal,
in the form of what we term the fossilised dialectic, resistant to the
spiritualisation which will always leave the animal behind. If
philosophy can admit the animal in this way, we might then ask what
philosophy can learn from this animal that will have taken up
residence in its home? What does a specifically domestic animal teach
us? At the very least, it shows us that the function we give to the
furnishings of the house is not the only one and perhaps therefore
that there is no single unique function. In this way, animals teach us
the most philosophical lesson there is: to see the world as it is in
itself.
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ISBN
9781786607560
Publisert
2018
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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