ANIMAL AS AN ALIEN

• Authors: HANNA MAMZER

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the text is to reflect on defining animals as negative opposites of human beings, that contradict humanistic values and ideals. In a posthuman thought Rossi Braidotti proposes zooegalitarism, aiming at providing animals and humans with equal rights. In cultural human tradition, one can find deeply rooted tendency to oppose humans and animals. Looking at this phenomenon from a humanistic point of view, we can notice that proposed by Lévinas cathegory of the Other, has no application here. To contrary: animal is treated as an alien, and all negative qualities of the alien are automatically assigned to animal as well. What purpose this opposition serves? And what happens if this opposition disappears?

Keywords

EN

animal; human; alien; identity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Society Register
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 167-178

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

HANNA MAMZER

• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

• https://orcid.org/0000000222517639

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/sr.2019.3.3.11

Biblioteka Nauki

1036334