Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences

Wahida Khandker is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has contributed to numerous philosophy journals.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Forces of Nature: Evolution, Divergence, Decimation; Chapter 2: Pathological Life and the Limits of Medical Perception; Chapter 3: Violence, Pathos and Animal Life in European Philosophy and Critical Animal Studies; Chapter 4: From Animal-Machines to Cybernetic Organisms; Chapter 5: Organicism and Complexity: Whitehead and Kauffman; Chapter 6: Aped, Mongrelised and Scapegoated: Adventures in Biopolitics and Transgenics in Haraway’s Animal Worlds; Epilogue: A Vicious Circle; Bibliography.

Ranging across a remarkable array of crucial texts in the recent history of philosophy and the life sciences, this book provides both an invaluable critical overview of the work of Whitehead, Canguilhem, Bergson, Haraway, and others on the question of "life" and at the same time pursues its own highly original intervention in how we can think our ontological and ethical relation to non-human beings.