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Introduction
Climate change generates new topics for philosophy. Philosophy, for its part, can contribute important conceptual tools to climate change...
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Vibrant Mimesis: New Materialism to Mimetic Studies
This chapter establishes a so far largely unnoticed genealogical connection between new materialism and mimetic studies. It does so in view of...
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Introduction
Climate change generates new topics for philosophy. Philosophy, for its part, can contribute important conceptual tools to climate change...
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Foundations of a Critical Theory for the Anthropocene
This first chapter is a general introduction. It lays the foundations of a critical theory for the Anthropocene. It is organised into four parts: (1)...
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Posthuman Affirmative Business Ethics: Reimagining Human–Animal Relations Through Speculative Fiction
Posthuman affirmative ethics relies upon a fluid, nomadic conception of the ethical subject who develops affective, material and immaterial...
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New Humanities
The New Humanities are a significant critical and creative response to the Anthropocene, especially the Environmental, Medical, Public and Digital...
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Previewing Post-Anthropocene Themes
This chapter previews themes that have emerged during the post-Anthropocene era. They include eco-modernism, nature-culture divide, new materialism,...
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Milking It for All It’s Worth: Unpalatable Practices, Dairy Cows and Veterinary Work?
Viewing animals as a disposable resource is by no means novel, but does milking the cow for all its worth now represent a previously unimaginable...
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Climate, Change and War
What this chapter brings together are five key transformative factors that are changing the conditions, form and space of war. Starting with climate...
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Critique of Western Technological Hegemony and Neo-Animism in Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Angolan philosopher Ruy Duarte de Carvalho was a man of many talents: a poet, an anthropologist, a filmmaker, a committed fictional writer and...
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Posthuman Ethics: The Priority of Ethical Over Ontological Status
The moral status of new beings has often been linked to the question of the ontological status of new beings. Some authors believe that the...
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World in Peril
This chapter briefly revisits the beginning of life on the planet and how the humans thrived and flourished historically. It explores the complexity...
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Politics, Renaissance
The Renaissance was a fundamentally political phenomenon, a period of time in which questions about the purpose of political life and the nature of...
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Cognition and the Passions
Hobbes viewed people as just matter in motion and developed a thoroughly materialistic account of human psychology. In the first part of this chapter...
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The Tyranny Greece Over Marx
The written legacy of Marx is essentially divided into two periods, the Pre-1844 Period and the Post-1844 Period. Franz Mehring’s nineteenth century...
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Critical Animal Studies and Animal Standpoint Theory
“Critical animal studies” emerged in higher education as a result of mainstream animal studies being perceived as having sold out, as having been...
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Introduction
The three teachings (Sanjiao 三教, the traditional moral teachings in Chinese context.) of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism are not ‘religions’ in...
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Applications: Everyday Life, the Body, and Strategies of Resistance
This chapter shows how the concepts defined in Chap. 1 work and can be analytically applied. In the first part,...
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Ideas of Race in the Canonical History of Philosophy
To speak of human race is to speak of human races—if there were only one human race, that “race” would be the whole of humanity. To understand the...