What if the other were an animal? Hegel on jews, animals and disease

Benjamin, A

What if the other were an animal? Hegel on jews, animals and disease

Benjamin, A

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Citation:: Critical Horizons, 2007, 8 (1), pp. 61 - 77
Issue Date:: 2007-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Benjamin, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Critical Horizons, 2007, 8 (1), pp. 61 - 77	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1440-9917	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1674
dc.description.abstract	The question of the other appears to be a uniquely human concern. Engagement with the nature of alterity and the quality of the other are philosophical projects that commence with an assumed anthropocentrism. This anthropocentrism will be pursued by way of Hegel's discussion of "disease" in his Philosophy of Nature. Disease is implicitly bound up with race, racial identity and animality, and provides an opening to the question: what if the other were an animal? Any answer to this question should resist a founding anthropocentrism by no longer being limited by the opposition human/non-human. This gives rise to the possibility of engaging philosophically with questions of race and ethnicity. © Acumen Publishing Ltd. 2007.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Critical Horizons	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1558/crit.v8i1.61	en_US
dc.title	What if the other were an animal? Hegel on jews, animals and disease	en_US
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dc.location.activity	Ballina, Australia
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
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Abstract:

The question of the other appears to be a uniquely human concern. Engagement with the nature of alterity and the quality of the other are philosophical projects that commence with an assumed anthropocentrism. This anthropocentrism will be pursued by way of Hegel's discussion of "disease" in his Philosophy of Nature. Disease is implicitly bound up with race, racial identity and animality, and provides an opening to the question: what if the other were an animal? Any answer to this question should resist a founding anthropocentrism by no longer being limited by the opposition human/non-human. This gives rise to the possibility of engaging philosophically with questions of race and ethnicity. © Acumen Publishing Ltd. 2007.

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