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The Beautiful Animal: Sincerity, Charm, and the Fossilised Dialectic

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By (author): Michael Lewis

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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 349g
  • Dimensions: 151 x 230mm
  • Publication Date: 18 May 2018
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781786607553

About Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis is the author of Heidegger and the Place of Ethics (Bloomsbury) Heidegger beyond Deconstruction: On Nature (Bloomsbury) Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing (Edinburgh University Press) and (with Tanja Staehler) Phenomenology: An Introduction (Bloomsbury) along with articles on Agamben Bataille Derrida Esposito Lacan Stiegler and iek among others. Educated in Philosophy at the Universities of Warwick and Essex he has taught philosophy film psychoanalysis and philosophical anthropology at the University of Sussex (20079 2011) University of Warwick (2010) and the University of the West of England (201115). He currently teaches philosophy at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

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