Description: A team of renowned philosophers and a new generation of thinkers come together to offer the first book-length examination of the relationship between philosophical anthropology and animal studies.
Brief description: Rudmer Bijlsma is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Antwerp.
Review Quotes:
"The Animal Inside offers a powerful riposte to those who might view Animal Studies as having but a limited purview. The essays collected in this volume attest to the inexhaustible potential of philosophical and ethical questions that arise when we apprehend the enclosure delimiting the human and animal as concepts. The commendable range of essays here open innovative and exciting new directions for further research." --Kalpana R. Seshadri, Professor, Department of English, Boston College
"Animals are back with a vengeance. Long neglected, or discredited by scholars as "thoughtless brutes", they have made it to the forefront of theorizing in the humanities and cultural studies. This volume is bustling with superb scholarship, masterfully interweaving philosophical analysis with historical, literary and scientific perspectives. I am struck by the profundity and excellence of the contributors. A thrilling read." --Jan Slaby, Institut für Philosophie, Freie Universität Berlin "The Animal Inside throws new light, immersing itself into the discussions that help building social thought about nonhuman animals as we conceive it today. The perspective of this work is not ethical or moral, but a philosophical-anthropological one, even though ethical and moral concern is always near when it comes to the link between species. [...] As a whole, this work offers a deep analysis over the most widespread western ideas on animals: although still dealing with human-nonhuman centrality as axis, it brings new thinking on longstanding problems." --Language & Ecology