Philosophy, animality and the life sciences

by Khandker, Wahida

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Full title :Philosophy, animality and the life sciences / Wahida Khandker.

Summary

A study of pathological concepts of animal life in Continental philosophy from Bergson to Haraway. 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, can Continental approaches to animality and organic life make us reconsider our treatment of non-human animals? By following its historical and philosophical development, Khandker 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. Key Features. Looks at the assumptions underpinning about debates about science and animals, and our relation to non-human animals Analyses the relation between the purpose and limitations of research in the life sciences and the concepts of animality and organic life that the sciences have historically employed Explores the significance of key thinkers such as Bergson, Canguilhem, Foucault and Haraway, and opens up the complex and difficult writings of Alfred North Whitehead on this subject

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780748676781, 0748676783, 9781474406468, 1474406467
oclc:ocn892565594
LC Classification:B105.A55
Dewey Decimal:179.4

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1. Forces of Nature: Evolution, Divergence, Decimation; 2. Pathological Life and the Limits of Medical Perception; 3. Violence, Pathos and Animal Life in European Philosophy and Critical Animal Studies; 4. From AnimalMachines to Cybernetic Organisms . . .; 5. Organicism and Complexity: Whitehead and Kauffman; 6. Aped, Mongrelised and Scapegoated: Adventures in Biopolitics and Transgenics in Haraway's Animal Worlds; Epilogue: A Vicious Circle; Bibliography; Index

Subjects

Animal experimentation -- Moral and eth… Animal rights Animaux -- Droits Continental philosophy Expérimentation animale -- Aspect moral History Philosophie continentale Philosophy (General)