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Author Cimatti, Felice, author.

Title Unbecoming human : philosophy of animality after Deleuze / Felice Cimatti ; translated by Fabio Gironi.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Plateaus - new directions in Deleuze studies
Plateaus.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Animals Do Not Exist -- 1 Animal? -- 2 The Anthropologic Machine -- 3 Rage and Envy -- 4 To Be Seen -- 5 Becoming-human -- 6 The Artistic Beast -- 7 Becoming-animal -- 8 Beyond the Apparatus -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary The animality of human beings is completely unknown. Being human means to be something other than an animal, to not be an animal. Felice Cimatti, with reference to the work of Gilles Deleuze, explores what human animality looks like. He shows that becoming animal means to stop thinking of humanity as the reference point of nature and the world. It means that our value as humans has the very same value as a cloud, a rock or a spider. Drawing on a wide range of texts--from philosophical ethology to classical texts, and from continental philosophy to literature--Cimatti creates a dialogue with Flaubert, Derrida, Temple Grandin, Heidegger as well as Malaparte and Landolfi--as part of this intriguing discussion about our humanity--and our unknown animality.
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Subject Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophical anthropology.
Animals (Philosophy)
Animals (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Gironi, Fabio, 1983- translator.
Added Title Filosofia dell'animalità. English
Other Form: Original 1474443397 9781474443395 (OCoLC)1117546546
ISBN 9781474443418 (electronic book)
1474443419 (electronic book)
9781474443395
1474443397
9781474443395