The Suffering Animal Life Between Weakness and Power /
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| 总结: | XV, 235 p. text |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| 版: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| 丛编: | The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series,
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| 在线阅读: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32982-1 |
| 格式: | 电子 电子书 |
书本目录:
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 An Animal Suffers for Nothing This Side of Good and Evil
- 1.2 Moderns Knew It: The Radical Challenge of the Suffering Animal
- 1.3 Life Is Weak
- 1.4 The Suffering Animal Faces the Extreme
- 1.5 Biodicies for Free Spirits
- 1.6 Luck of Some, Misfortune of All
- 1.7 Preliminary Notes
- Works Cited
- 2 The Sensitive Cogito: Modern Materialism and Its Legacy
- 2.1 A Shaky Canon
- 2.2 The Animal-Machine, or Rather Descartes’ Dangerous Idea
- 2.3 The Rise of the Suffering Animal
- 2.4 The “Innovative Restoration” of the Rational Animal
- Works Cited
- 3 Life Is Overrated: On Darwin’s Ultimate Materialism
- 3.1 The Evolution of the Suffering Animal
- 3.2 The Coral of Life and the Chance of Equality
- 3.3 The Revolt of Sentient Beings and the Chance of Civilization
- 3.4 There Is Life, Therefore God Cannot Exist
- 3.5 The Suffering Animal Versus the Powerful Animal
- Works Cited
- 4 Humanity as a Matter of Civilization: The Primo Levi Case
- 4.1 Thinking Dehumanization by Experience
- 4.2 The Inegalitarian God and Meaningless Suffering
- 4.3 The Salvation of Civilization
- 4.4 “We Weren’t a Pleasant Sight”
- 4.5 The Salvation of Science
- Works Cited
- 5 The Rise of the Powerful Animal: On Deleuze’s Materialism of Power
- 5.1 The Eclipse of the Suffering Animal
- 5.2 Releasing Life: Hume and Bergson
- 5.3 Releasing the Living: Spinoza and Nietzsche
- 5.4 Becoming the Powerful Animal that We Are
- 5.5 The Powerful Animal Reveals Their True Face
- Works Cited
- 6 Conclusion: The Powerful Animal Encounters the Suffering Animal
- Works Cited.