1st Edition
Multispecies Dialogues Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others
By Eva Meijer
Copyright 2025
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
In Multispecies Dialogues Eva Meijer develops a new understanding of the concept ‘dialogue’, which includes embodied, material and spatial interaction. Meijer does not do this alone: each chapter of the book is devoted to a dialogue, or set of dialogues – with street dog Olli, a community of former lab mice, amphibian neighbours, the North Sea, and many other beings. Taking multispecies... Read more
Chapter 1. (Introduction) All Thinking is Thinking with Others, Chapter 2. Conversations with Olli, Chapter 3. Learning to See Mice, Chapter 4. Assisting Amphibian Neighbors, Chapter 5. Conversations with and about the North Sea, Chapter 6. In Dialogue with Art, Chapter 7. Speaking with Myself about Depression, Chapter 8. Discussing Multispecies Futures with Children, Chapter 9. (Conclusion) Learning to Listen, Acknowledgements, References
Biography
Eva Meijer is a philosopher, writer, and artist. They write novels, philosophical essays, academic texts, poems and columns, and their work has been translated into over twenty languages. Recurring themes are language, madness, nonhuman animals, and politics. Meijer works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), and is the co-chair of the Dutch Study Group for Animal Philosophy. They also write columns and essays for Dutch newspapers and are a member of the Multispecies Collective.
