Entre Humanidades e Animalidades: discursos modernos em disputa.
| Autor | Ferreira, Bruna Mariz Bataglia |
| Cargo | Texto en ingles - Ensayo |
Modernity offers us a way of understanding the world that continues to be affirmed and based on dichotomous relationships such as culture and nature, civilized and savage, human and animal, that strengthens colonialist, sexist, racist, anthropocentric, and speciesist hegemonic discourses. The purpose of the Dossier is to offer readers access to reflections that seek to problematize these discourses otherwise and to point out other possible ways of understanding these relations and their impacts on the juridical, political, ethical and moral fields. Somehow, the articles converge towards an expansion and breakdown of the various frontiers imposed by modernity, with other diagnoses of old problems, proposing ways of dealing with the "others" of our culture, be they animals, other humans or, why not, with the other who inhabits us.
In this sense, in the article Human-Animal Studies: moral agency and animal play, Bruna Mariz Bataglia Ferreira presents a horizon of research possibilities in the field of Human-animal Studies, and offers two reflections that try to understand and question, first, the idea, so fundamental--and already criticized--to law and political philosophy, moral agency as a presupposition of democracy bringing the role of the animal in its elaboration; then to show a possible way from the animal play in the work of Brian Massumi to think about the possibility of a form of sociability that is not based on a normative ethic in which all inclusion implies an exclusion, but a logic of mutual inclusion that breaks with a "hierarchical organization of beings" and privileges the "living expression of processes".
From in Playing, killing, eating: on morality and animal rights, Juliana Fausto offers a look at animal play in its relation to justice, contained in the work of Mark Bekoff. The author problematizes Bekoff's reflections on the existence of morality among animals, but restricted to each species, from the question of feeding--"[for the author] a wolf, for example, would act morally within his group but not before the moose that he kills and eats"--identifying in this one key of reading to confront some discourses on morality and universal animal rights.
Is it possible to find in animality a "common mode of existence between human and nonhuman animals" that breaks with the hierarchy between beings? In The opening: human, animal and animality on Hans Jonas, Jelson R. de Oliveira provokes some reflections on the phenomenon of...
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