The Animal Inside

Geoffrey Dierckxsens is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy in the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences Rudmer Bijlsma is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Antwerp. Michael Begun is a graduate student in philosophy at Fordham University. Thomas Kiefer is a graduate student in philosophy at Fordham University.

Introduction / PART I: General Explorations of Human and Animal Nature / 1. Nonhuman animals: a shared life and a licence to kill, Giulia Sissa (Professor of Classics, UCLA) / 2. Kata Phusin: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives on the Hermeneutics of Animality, Thomas Kiefer (PhD-candidate in Philosophy, Fordham University) / 3. Animal and Human Nature in Early Modern Philosophy: Spinoza and Hume, Rudmer Bijlsma (Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Antwerp) / 4. Kafka’s Animals in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jo Bogaerts (Lecturer in Literature, University of Antwerp) / 5. What is Distinctively Human? Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre on the Relation between Humans and Animals, Rob Compaijen and Michiel Meijer (PhD-candidates in Philosophy, University of Antwerp) / 6. Is it better to be a Human than a Lion?, Lantz Miller (Lecturer in Philosophy, CUNY) / PART II: Aspects of Human and Animal Nature / 7. Imagination - The Imagination of Animals, Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University; St. John’s College, University of Oxford) / 8. The Political Animal – Werewolves: A Reconsideration of Hobbes’s State of Nature from the Perspective of Biopolitics, Herbert De Vriese (Professor of Philosophy, University of Antwerp) / 9. The Historical Animal - The Human Being as Historical Animal: Dialectic and Polemics in Marx’s “The German Ideology” and Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morality”, Michael Begun and Lilian Cicerchia (PhD-candidates inPhilosophy, Fordham University) / 10. Shame - Shame in Front of the Cat? On Shame and the Other, Geoffrey Dierckxsens (Professor of Philosophy and PhD-candidate in Philosophy, University of Antwerp) / 11. Finitude - Being-toward-Meat: An Analytic of Human-Animal Finitude, Matthew Calarco (Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University at Fullerton) / 12. Joy - Animal Joy: Towards Cat Phenomenology, Babette Babich (Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University) / Index