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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Publisher:: Acumen Publishing
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Benjamin Andrew 2007, 'What if the Other were an Animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease', Acumen Publishing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 61-77.
Issue Date:: 2007

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dc.contributor.author	Benjamin, A	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2010-05-14T07:49:09Z
dc.date.available	2010-05-14T07:49:09Z
dc.date.created	2010-05-14T07:49:09Z	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.identifier	2007001687	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Benjamin Andrew 2007, 'What if the Other were an Animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease', Acumen Publishing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 61-77.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1568-5160	en_US
dc.identifier.other	C1	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/6620
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. Th is gives rise to the possibility of engaging philosophically with questions of race and ethnicity.	en_US
dc.publisher	Acumen Publishing	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophyand Social Theory	en_US
dc.title	What if the Other were an Animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease	en_US
dc.type	Journal article
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utslib.location	UK	en_US
utslib.citation.startpage	61	en_US
utslib.citation.endpage	77	en_US
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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. Th is gives rise to the possibility of engaging philosophically with questions of race and ethnicity.

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