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1. Introduction – The Italian Animal—A Heterodox Tradition -- Part I: Animality in the Italian Tradition -- 2. Animality and Immanence in Italian Thought -- 3. Aldo Capitini, Animal Ethics, and Nonviolence: The Expanding Circle -- 4. What is Italian Antispeciesism? An Overview of Recent Tendencies in Animal Advocacy -- Part II: Animality in Perspective -- 5. Beyond Human and Animal: Giorgio Agamben and Life as Potential -- 6. Deconstructing the Dispositif of the Person: Animality and the Politics of Life in the Philosophy of Roberto Esposito -- 7. Animality Between Italian Theory and Posthumanism -- 8. For the Critique of Political Anthropocentrism: Italian Marxism and the Animal Question -- 9. Experiencing Oneself in One's Constitutive Relation: Unfolding Italian Sexual Difference -- 10. Paolo De Benedetti: For an Animal Theology -- Part III: Fragments of a Contemporary Debate -- 11. "Il faut bien tuer," or the Calculation of the Abattoir -- 12. Philosophical Ethology and Animal Subjectivity -- 13. From Renaissance Ferinity to the Biopolitics of the Animal-Man: Animality as Political Battlefield in the Anthropocene -- 14. The Animal Is Present: Non-Human Animal Bodies in Recent Italian Art -- 15. Animality Now.

The article argues that eugenics was motivated, in part, by human exceptionalism. It first explores the ways in which eugenics understood nonwhite race, disability, and animality as forces capable of exerting a drag on the forward thrust of eugenic progress. Next, it traces the incoherent discourse about animality within eugenics, demonstrating that while eugenic breeding—eugenic methods—relied on human animality, the fundamental goal of eugenics was to improve human beings by distancing us from that animality. The final part of the article explores the imbrication of animality, race, and disability in Aldous Huxley's 1948 novel
Ape and Essence
, arguing that the novel is a dysgenic vision that substantiates the eugenic call to increase the evolutionary distance between human beings and other animals, to cement human domination—conceived of as white human domination—of the planet.

"Addressing the western understanding of the status and nature of animals and the relation of animals to the question of life, this book provides a discourse on animality through an interdisciplinary investigation into various areas of humanities. The nature of animals is explored by drawing on materials from literature, art, religion, philosophy, and political science, focusing on discussions of animality about the classical culture of ancient Greece, metaphysics and its application to debates on life, Martin Heidegger's philosophical theories, and biopolitics. Although the distinctive difference between human beings from animals has long been emphasized, the author argues that they are inseparable from one another to achieve understanding. The interrogation of animality, therefore, provides a new perspective on the nature of human beings in this postmodern era. Academics in western literature, literary theory, literary criticism, and comparative literature will find this work an insightful addition to debates in their respective fields, while it will also help senior university students pursuing their studies"--

"Addressing the western understanding of the status and nature of animals and the relation of animals to the question of life, this book provides a discourse on animality through an interdisciplinary investigation into various areas of humanities. The nature of animals is explored by drawing on materials from literature, art, religion, philosophy, and political science, focusing on discussions of animality about the classical culture of ancient Greece, metaphysics and its application to debates on life, Martin Heidegger's philosophical theories, and biopolitics. Although the distinctive difference between human beings from animals has long been emphasized, the author argues that they are inseparable from one another to achieve understanding. The interrogation of animality, therefore, provides a new perspective on the nature of human beings in this postmodern era. Academics in western literature, literary theory, literary criticism, and comparative literature will find this work an insightful addition to debates in their respective fields, while it will also help senior university students pursuing their studies"--

Recognizing how it pervades the Western philosophical tradition, I chose Derrida's study of the concept of sovereignty as the topic of my research, particularly its genealogy and its implications for democracy, friendship, and the thinking of animality vis-à-vis the human ideal of rationality. In my thesis, I analyze how Derrida uncovers the tensions within the concept of sovereignty so as to call into question the exceptionality and indivisibility that thinkers from Plato to Carl Schmitt have accorded to it. For instance, in tracing the genealogy of sovereignty to the theological image of the Judeo-Christian, primarily Christian, monotheistic God who is absolute in his power, Derrida underscores the heterogeneous structure of sovereignty which in turn problematizes the claim for the indivisibility of human sovereign power. ; October 2017

The article introduces the concept of ecorelational aesthetics, understood as a realm of artistic production and practice that creates a space for meaningful encounters between the human and the nonhuman, which can facilitate rethinking disability and its place in the world. Ecorelational aesthetics helps dismantle anthropocentric and ableist ways of thinking, and reconceptualizes disability as a crucial form of cultural and biological diversity rather than an aberration or deviation from nature. Analyzing Sunaura Taylor's paintings, Claire Cunningham's performances
Beyond the Breakwater
and
We Run Like Rivers
(with Julia Watts Belser), the concept behind Hanna Cormick's performance
The Mermaid
, and the choreodocumentary
Gatunki chronione
(
Protected Species
, dir. Rafał Urbacki and Anu Czerwiński), the article examines key aspects of this aesthetics which accentuates the essential vulnerability of all human and nonhuman beings and promotes an ethics of (inter)dependence and care. The article also uses this as an opportunity to reflect critically upon Rosemarie GarlandThomson's notion of conserving disability as a valuable resource, i.e. an alternative way of being in the world that facilitates our cultural, epistemic, and ethical growth.