ANIMAL TURN AS A META-TURN?

• Authors: HANNA MAMZER

Abstracts

EN

Human sciences as a reflection of social transformations fluctuate with dynamic changes of current cognitive paradigms. Following the textual and visual turn and the turn towards things (objects), there are intensified tendencies to think in terms of an “animal turn”, which becomes close not only to activists and pro-animal activists but also to scientifically engaged humanists. I believe, however, that the animal turn should be treated as a meta-turn: a process that requires a change in the relationship between the reflecting subject and the object of reflection, and not only as a specific kind of representation of the surrounding world. In the proposed text, I attempt to analyze the causes of the turn towards animals. I also address the theme of cognitive resistance in view of the recognition of animal studies as a fully-fledged theoretical and research area of contemporary humanities.

Keywords

EN

animal turn; turn to animals' relations; man; animal; animal studies

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Society Register
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 7-17

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

HANNA MAMZER

• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

• https://orcid.org/0000000222517639

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/sr.2019.3.3.01

Biblioteka Nauki

1036282