The Political Animal
Special Issue of SubStance, Issue 117, 37:3 (2008)
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The Political Animal
Special Issue of SubStance, Issue 117, 37:3 (2008)
About this book
In the variegated history of the philosophical definitions of man, one has survived since it has been given the status of the self-evident. The definition in question comes from Aristotle's Politics: "the human is a political animal" (1253a3). There is something indisputable about this characterization: humans are, indeed, the most social of animals – they are denizens of the polis with its institutions and laws, its rulers, judges and generals. It would be difficult to contend that any other animal has recourse to the political as much as the human.
Aristotle's Politics need not be surrendered to the strictures of humanism. It remains amenable to the new schema for the political animal that we are sketching here. Each article collected in this issue responds – in its own way and by establishing its own protocols – to the exigency of the animal as it was formulated in Aristotle's Politics. Each article is an act of response, a moment of interruption.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword: The Political Animal by Chris Danta and Dimitris Vardoulakis
- Flesh and Finitude: Thinking Animals in (Post) Humanist Philosophy by Cary Wolfe
- Nature and its Discontents by Slavov Zizek
- Ecologocentrism: Unworking Animals by Timothy Morton
- Pitiable or Political Animals? by Julian Murphet
- Against the Image: Herzog and the Troubling Politics of the Screen Animal by Paul Sheehan
- The "Poor Thing": The Cosmopolitan in Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things" by Dimitris Vardoulakis
- Kafka's Mousetrap: The Fable of the Dying Voice by Chris Danta
- Following the Rats: Becoming-Animal in Deleuze and Guattari by Leonard Lawlor
- Habit, Reason, and the Limits of Normativity by Simon Lumsden
- Another Naming, a Living Animal: Blanchot's Community by Andrew Benjamin
- Contributors