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Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy
Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being
Vanessa Lemm
$24.00
ISBN: 9780823230280
Book (Paperback)
Fordham University Press
256 pages
April 2009
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"A well-written, well-researched, original contribution to the literature."
—Christa Davis Acampora, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
"Topics include the German philosopher's emphasis on the continuity between animal and political life."—The Chronicle of Higher Education This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy
of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides the first systematic treatment of the
animal theme in Nietzsche’s corpus as a whole. Lemm argues that the
animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche’s
thought. Instead, it stands at the center of his renewal of the practice
and meaning of philosophy itself. The question of the animal in Nietzsche’s
thought as treated by Lemm provides an original contribution to ongoing
debates on the essence of humanism and its future.
The book will appeal not only to readers interested in Nietzsche but also to
anyone interested in the theme of the animal in contemporary philosophy,
comparative literature, cultural studies, and the arts, as well as those
interested in the relation between biological life and politics.
| VANESSA LEMM is Associate Professor at the School for Political Science
and the Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago
de Chile. She previously taught at Northwestern University and at the
European College for Liberal Arts, Berlin. |
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