The Suffering Animal
Ghelli, Simone This book provides a critical and innovative reassessment of contemporary debate on the human-animal relationship. Starting with a critique of the ¿official philosophical narration¿ of animal studies, and then a reassessment of Descartes' animal-machine paradigm, Simone Ghelli tracks down the conceptual coordinates of what he calls ¿the paradigm of the suffering animal.¿ The suffering animal is a materialist thesis on the condition of the livi...