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The Beautiful Animal

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Beautiful Animal

By Michael Lewis

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About the book

Can philosophy conceive of a perfect animal? Can it think of the animal as anything other than an imperfect human? The book attempts to rethink the Hegelian dialectic so as to render it capable of assigning a proper place to the animal, and in particular the beautiful animal, and to rework the philosophy of nature so as to encompass the fossil. The fossil itself teaches philosophy and in particular the dialectic how it must modify itself in order to encompass the beautiful animal, in the form of...Show more

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9781786607546

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield International

Published year

2018

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1

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The Beautiful Animal

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Hardcover

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