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Article: Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England.(Book review)
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Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England
Erica Fudge
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006
Ruminating on the totemic use of animals, Levi-Strauss somewhat benignly conceded that it is less a case of animals being good to eat (bon a manger) than good to "think" (bon a penser). (1) But it is also the case that a genealogy of Western culture's ongoing discourse on the animal, from Aristotle to Descartes to Heidegger, reveals the unsettling extent to which the animal has persisted as not "good to think" but rather as the bearer of absolute alterity, the traumatic limit of Western thought. Heidegger's 1929-30 ...
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