What Animals Teach Us about Politics

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In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but an integrally animal politics, freed from connotations of the "primitive" state of nature and the accompanying presuppositions about instinct permeating modern thought. Massumi integrates notions marginalized by the dominant currents in evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and philosophy-notions such as play, sympathy, and creativity-into the concept of nature. As he does so, his inquiry necessarily expands, encompassing not only animal behavior but also animal thought and its distance from, or proximity to, those capacities over which human animals claim a monopoly: language and reflexive consciousness. For Massumi, humans and animals exist on a continuum. Understanding that continuum, while accounting for difference, requires a new logic of "mutual inclusion." Massumi finds the conceptual resources for this logic in the work of thinkers including Gregory Bateson, Henri Bergson, Gilbert Simondon, and Raymond Ruyer. This concise book intervenes in Deleuze studies, posthumanism, and animal studies, as well as areas of study as wide-ranging as affect theory, aesthetics, embodied cognition, political theory, process philosophy, the theory of play, and the thought of Alfred North Whitehead.

Über den Autor

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What Animals Teach Us about Politics 1

Supplements

1. To Write Like a Rat Flicks Its Tail 55

2. The Zoo-ology of Play 65

3. Six Theses on the Animal to Be Avoided 91

Notes 99

References 119

Index 125

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780822358008
ISBN-10:	082235800X
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Massumi, Brian
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 8 mm
Von/Mit:	Brian Massumi
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.09.2014
Gewicht:	0,223 kg

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