Capitalism’s Holocaust of Animals

Katerina Kolozova is Director and Professor of Gender Studies and Philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Research and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University American College Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She is the author of The Cut of The Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy (2014).

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Physical and the Automaton Introducing the Radical Dyad of the Non-humanChapter 2: Formalism of Materialist ReasonChapter 3: Subjectivity as Inherently Philosophical Entity and the Third Person’s PerspectiveChapter 4: Homologies and Asymmetries between the Automata of Capital and PatriarchyChapter 5: New Political Economy is Possible Only under the Condition of Abolishment of the Metaphysics of Animal-for-KillingReferences

We admit that animals are sentient beings and that they have rights, but we always treat them as abstractions. Katerina Kolozova makes us understand that it is philosophy that induces this belief, because philosophy is a denial of animals as it has been a denial of women. Moreover, these denials are conditions of the closing of philosophical systems. Kolozova urges us to transform our conception of philosophy by relating it to new, more generous concepts of woman and animal.