Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences
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Alfred North Whitehead
animality
animals
Author_Wahida Khandker
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Donna Haraway
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Georges Canguilhem
Henri Bergson
Michel Foucault
organic life
Philosophy
philosophy of science
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- ISBN 9780748676774
- Weight: 406g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue that Continental philosophers engaging with ‘the animal question’ have been rightly accused of shying away from. Now, Wahida Khandker asks whether Continental approaches to animality and organic life will make us reconsider our treatment of non-human animals. By following its historical and philosophical development, she argues that the concept of 'pathological life' as a means of understanding organic life as a whole plays a pivotal role in refiguring the human-animal distinction. She explores the significance of this across philosophy and the life sciences through the work of a number of key thinkers of life and process, from Henri Bergson to Donna Haraway.
Wahida Khandker is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has contributed to numerous philosophy journals.
