INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. Aristotle, Animal Boundaries, and the Logos of Nature
1.1. Away from the Stars: Animals’ Common Nature
1.2. The Centrality of Sensation, Reason, and the Articulation of the Common
1.3. A New Beginning
1.4. Animals, Tykhē, and the Logos of Nature
1.4.1. Animals’ Logos from Speech to Body and Life
1.4.2. On the Birth of Zoology and Animals’ Equality (and not)
CHAPTER 2. From Reason to Life: Aristotle on Soul Division
2.1. Understanding Ensouled Bodies: Soul Partition and Homogeneity
2.2. Problematic Divisions and Attributions: The Bipartition and Tripartition of
the Soul
2.2.1. Under the Rule of Logos: From Plato’s Republic to Aristotle’s Ethics
2.3. A New Model: The Geometry of the Soul
CHAPTER 3. Animals and Nature: At the Core of Aristotle’s Zoocentrism
3.1. Animality and the Living Body
3.2. Nature, Bodies, Movement, and Life
3.2.1. From the Coincidence of Causes to the Definition of Growth
3.2.2. Animal Growth, Nutrition, and the Soul
3.2.3. Growth, Movement, and the Origin of Animal Life
3.3. Nutrition, Reproduction, and the Desire of Immortality
CHAPTER 4. The Sentient Animal
4.1. Setting the Problem
4.2. From the Dialectics of Sensation to a New Form of Alteration
4.3. Sensation and Logos
4.3.1. On the Inability to Sense
4.4. Relating to the World: Sensorial Architectures and Animal Awareness
CHAPTER 5. Animal Pleasure: From Sensation to Imagination and Beyond
5.1. The Questions about Pleasure
5.2 Pleasure and Pain within and beyond Morality
5.2.1. Life and Pleasure
5.3. Animals’ Desire, Phantasia, Locomotion, and Communication
5.3.1. Dreams, Memory, and the Physiology of Phantasia
5.3.2. Body, Sensation, and Knowledge: in Response to the Presocratics
CHAPTER 6. The Lives of Animals
6.1. The History of Animals in Aristotle’s Zoology
6.1.1. The Articulation of Differences and Sameness
6.2. Body Constitution, Habitats, and Life
6.2.1. Diet, Pleasure, and the Fight for Survival
6.3. Animals’ Characters and Learning
6.3.1. Between Psychology and Ethological Physiology
6.4. The Non-Human Paradox: Being Political in Aristotle’s Zoology
6.4.1. The Plasticity of the Political Animals
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Biography
Claudia Zatta (PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA) is the author of Interconnectedness: The Living World of the Early Greek Philosophers (2019, second edition) and numerous articles on different aspects of the classics. She currently teaches at the American College of Greece in Athens.
"The breadth of textual evidence that Z. summons to make her case is dazzling, as is her reconstruction of the conceptual debate to which Aristotle was responding in his effort to locate the study of animal life within a larger philosophical project. Z.’s book is a significant contribution to ongoing conversations about the scale of Aristotle’s teleology presented in work by J. Gelber and D. Henry, about whether zōē is a core-dependent homonym, as opened by C. Shields and complicated fruitfully in recent work by C. Coates, and about the kind and extent of Aristotle’s empiricism as explored by M. Gasser-Wingate. Z.’s volume should be considered necessary reading for scholars tracking and participating in these conversations." - The Classical Review
