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 Quantity:

"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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