Massumi What Animals Teach Us about Politics

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7605-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten

In this concise book, the noted theorist Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." Treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics, which he uses as the basis of an expanded notion of the political.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massumi, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What Animals Teach Us about Politics 1

Supplements

1. To Write Like a Rat Flicks Its Tail 55

2. The Zoo-ology of Play 65

3. Six Theses on the Animal to Be Avoided 91

Notes 99

References 119

Index 125

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.