Year after year, day after day, minute after minute, billions of non-human animals are slaughtered for several purposes and aims (food, clothing, entertainment, research). An analogous situation whose objects were humans instead of animals would obviously never be accepted. But why do we tolerate and even justify one practice while deploring the other?
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Existence, diacritiques, animalité
Existence, Diacritics, Animality
Esistenza, diacritico, animalità
The darkness of this time. Ethics, politics, and religion in Wittgenstein
The present book is a collection of 9 essays, emerging from a long and intense research collaboration amongst scholars coming from different backgrounds and traditions. As the book subtitle suggests, these essays focus on the ethical, religious, and political aspects or dimensions of Wittgenstein’s thought
Nation and/or homeland. Identity in 19th-Century Music and Literature between Central and Mediterranean Europe
The aim of this book is to focus on the development of national consciousness elaborated around a series of different case studies, in which the terms nation, homeland and people have been applied. This Romantic lexicon identifies similar but various conceptions of the national idea in some countries dominated by Italian, German and Slavic cultures, and in some groups or minorities such as the Jews and the Vlachs in Central and Mediterranean Europe.
All over
All over is a collection of epic songs, of epinician odes for our day. The heroes praised are boxers, men the author identifies as the […]
Pretense. A relativist account
Pretending is a puzzling activity. Why should we waste our time building up representations of an imaginary world when it would be better to acquire […]
Chiasmi International 12. Merleau-Ponty. Philosophy and moving pictures
Chiasmi International 12 presents an extraordinary, unpublished extract from the first course Merleau-Ponty taught at the Collège de France. It is one of the few places where he speaks of cinema and its literal sense of movement. Thus, a “Special Section” called “Cinema and the Philosophy of Movement” is devoted to this topic. It contains six essays, two of which were written by Chiasmi International editors, Mauro Carbone and Pierre Rodrigo. Moreover, this issue collects a wide scope of essays, focusing specially on Merleau-Ponty’s ontology and on his reflection about dance and painting.
Chiasmi International 11. Thinking without dualisms today
From Italy to Mexico, and all the way to Japan, then back to the United States: the annus mirabilis of the centenary of Merleau-Ponty’s birth was celebrated […]
Queer crossings. Theories, bodies, texts
The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of writings on queer theories and practices. Drawing together established and emerging scholars in the field, this volume offers a broad, trans-disciplinary and international approach to queer studies. In the light of recent critical perspectives, it proposes a number of theoretical developments concerning three key thematic fields: theories, bodies and texts.