1st Edition

The Philosophical Ethology of Dominique Lestel

Edited By Matthew Chrulew, Jeffrey Bussolini, Brett Buchanan Copyright 2018
220 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

Dominique Lestel is a French philosopher whose work is significant for the rethinking of animality and human-animal relations. Throughout such important books as L’Animalité (1996), Les Origines animales de la culture (2001) and L’Animal singulier (2004), he offers a fierce critique of reductive, mechanistic models of animal behaviour, as well as a positive contribution to etho-ethnographic... Read more

General Introduction: Philosophical Ethology  Preface: A Field Philosopher with a Certain Taste for Fish, and Who Does Not Mistake his Hat for an Ethology  Introduction: Dominique Lestel  1. The Philosophical Ethology of Dominique Lestel  2. Mirror Effects  3. Hybrid Communities  4. Toward an Ethnography of Animal Worlds  5. Dissolving Nature in Culture: Some Philosophical Stakes of the Question of Animal Cultures  6. The Question of the Animal Subject: Thoughts on the Fourth Wound to Human Narcissism  7. The Friends of My Friends  8. Epistemological Interlude  9. The Carnivore’s Ethics  10. The Infinite Debt of the Human Towards the Animal  11. The Animal Outside the Text: An Interview with Dominique Lestel

Biography

Matthew Chrulew is ARC DECRA Research Fellow in the Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Australia.



Jeffrey Bussolini is Associate Professor of Sociology-Anthropology at City University of New York, USA.



Brett Buchanan is Director of the School of the Environment, Laurentian University, Canada.