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Zwierzoczłekoupiór? Posthumanistyczna refleksja nad zwierzętami
Zwierzoczłekoupiór (Animal-Human-Spectre)? Posthumanistic Reflection on Animals

Author(s): Justyna Schollenberger
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: człowiek; zwierzę; posthumanizm; humanistyka; inność; Braidotti; Haraway

Summary/Abstract: The article reviews the posthumanistic concepts of moving beyond anthropocentrism. They are presented in the context of deliberations on non-human animals and human-animal relationship. Posthumanism criticizes primarily the humanistic category of a “human”. As Rosi Braidotti notices, it does not perform the descriptive function, but mostly serves to stigmatize the different, non-human. The consequence of such assumption is the postulate to extend the field of humanistic thoughts. The point is not to abandon a topic of a human, but to attempt to develop tools to describe non-human “otherness”.

  • Issue Year: 442/2014
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 15-25
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish