Michel de Montaigne’s Atheology of Animality as an Example of an Emancipation Tool for Modern Humanity

• Authors: Dobrowolski Jacek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Diverse concepts of animality have played important role within the processes of modern secularisation and its anti-theological turn in the modern making of “man.” By turning the conceptual focus towards the animal side of human being, and specifically by describing and explaining “the human nature” in terms of its “animality,” modern philosophical anthropology has changed, gradually, into naturalistic, godless discourse of a purely material life. The discovery of the “animal in man,” its increasing impact through evolution theory eventually led to the denial of human supremacy. Since secularisation in its essence intends to emancipate humanity, it is interesting how animalisation can be related to emancipation. In the article Montaigne’s conception of animality is examined as an early case of this thinking.

Keywords

EN

Montaigne; Hume; Rousseau; Sade; Nietzsche; atheology of animality; emancipation; animality; human nature; becoming animal; free will

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 165-171

Contributors

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Dobrowolski Jacek

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