TY - JOUR
T1 - The question of the animal subject
AU - Lestel, Dominique
AU - Taylor, Hollis
N1 - Translated from Dominique Lestel, L’Animal singulier (Paris: Seuil, 2004). Copyright Editions du Seuil, 2004.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - To the three classic wounds to human narcissism - that of Copernicus (man does not live in a geocentric universe), Darwin (man is an animal), and Freud (man is not the master of his unconscious - there must be appended a fourth wound: man is not the only subject in the universe. While most philosophers are unwilling to accept it, ethological research shows that animals are also subjects; indeed, in human/animal hybrid communities, certain animals can become individuals or even persons. Through animal biography, anecdotes, and other often disqualified but nonetheless empirical forms of knowledge, we can come to know these singular animals.
AB - To the three classic wounds to human narcissism - that of Copernicus (man does not live in a geocentric universe), Darwin (man is an animal), and Freud (man is not the master of his unconscious - there must be appended a fourth wound: man is not the only subject in the universe. While most philosophers are unwilling to accept it, ethological research shows that animals are also subjects; indeed, in human/animal hybrid communities, certain animals can become individuals or even persons. Through animal biography, anecdotes, and other often disqualified but nonetheless empirical forms of knowledge, we can come to know these singular animals.
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U2 - 10.1080/0969725X.2014.976056
DO - 10.1080/0969725X.2014.976056
M3 - Article
SN - 0969-725X
VL - 19
SP - 113
EP - 125
JO - Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
JF - Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
IS - 3
ER -