ABSTRACT

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

Is humanity a natural kind?

chapter 3|12 pages

Beasts, brutes and monsters

chapter 6|7 pages

Animals attitudes to people

chapter 7|16 pages

The animal in the study of humanity