Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Philosophical Zoology. Why philosophers still believe in the human-animal caesura; 2. Polemology. The animal as a philosophical concept and how that influences infra- and interdisciplinary discussion; 3. Anatomy. What is the concept of man made of?; 4. Anthropology. Several instances of how the concept of the human has been established on a plane of transcendence; 5. False Immanence. Why philosophy presents a negative vision of the animal; 6. Radical Immanence. Recreating the concept of the animal; 7. Uses of Immanence. Conclusions and remarks on practice; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Krzysztof Skonieczny is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales," University of Warsaw. His interests include animal studies, political philosophy and the question of atheism. He coedited (with Szymon Wróbel) Atheism Revisited. Rethinking Modernity and Inventing New Modes of Life (2020).
