Dlaczego kapitalizm ze zwierzęcą twarzą również nie jest dla nas rozwiązaniem? Od antropologii do krytyki ekonomii politycznej. Wokół Ludzkości mięsożernej Florence Burgat
Why Is Capitalism With an Animal Face Not a Solution For Us Either? From Anthropology to a Critique of Political Economy: Florence Burgat’s Carnivorous Humanity

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to introduce Florence Burgat, a phenomenologist and one of the outstanding contemporary animalist philosophers in France, with a special emphasis put on her last book, L’humanité carnivore (2017) in which she analyses “the carnivorous fact.” What Burgat describes as the equivalence principle would let us liberate from our anthropologically conditioned sacrificial structure, whereas clean meat makes it possible to elude the carnivorous fact as irreducible. However, unlike Burgat, I consider this fact in the context of the technological dimension of consumerist capitalism. Going beyond Burgat’s anthropological perspective (though with no intention to question the relevance of her observations), I opt for the perspective of a critique of political economy. What Burgat refers to as “ovo-lacto-meaty plethora” might be seen as an effect of a prototypical disruptive innovation. Therefore, one may read this article as an attempt for making the animal life the object of a critique of political economy.

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