What Animals Teach Us about Politics

by Brian Massumi

Book Overview

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but an integrally animal politics, freed from connotations of the "primitive" state of nature and the accompanying presuppositions about instinct permeating modern thought. Massumi integrates notions marginalized by the dominant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082235800X
• ISBN13: 9780822358008
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"