The Beautiful Animal: Sincerity, Charm, and the Fossilised Dialectic

by Michael Lewis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786607549
• ISBN13: 9781786607546
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"