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From Animal Laborans to Animal Agora: Hannah Arendt and the Political Turn in Animal Ethics

  • Cris van der Hoek (author)
Chapter of: Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy

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TitleFrom Animal Laborans to Animal Agora: Hannah Arendt and the Political Turn in Animal Ethics
ContributorCris van der Hoek (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH17
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractCris van der Hoek, in her chapter, “From <i>Animal Laborans</i> to <i>Animal Agora</i>: Hannah Arendt and the Political Turn in Animal Ethics,” goes into how Arendt’s political-philosophical thinking can be a source of inspiration for the so-called “political turn” in animal ethics that is advocated by many animal activists and eco-philosophers. At first sight, such inspiration is not at all evident. In Arendt’s <i>The Human Condition</i>, the animal is only addressed in relation to the (biological) activity of (reproductive) labor. Political action is the sole preserve of human beings, as the ability to act is explicitly related to plurality and the public sphere, in which humans appear to each other and disclose themselves in word and deed. In Arendt’s later work, however, plurality is no longer merely conceived as a human condition. Rather, as Arendt writes, it constitutes the law of the earth itself. Reading Arendt’s thinking alongside the work of Donna Haraway and Sue Donaldson, it could be deployed to enrich and deepen our thoughts concerning both the encounter between human and non-human animals and the appearance of animals in the public space.
Keywords
  • feminist theory
  • feminist philosophy
  • gender theory
  • race
  • racism
  • sexism and misogyny
  • oppresssion and resistance
  • the environment
  • climate change
  • neuropsychology
  • brain theories
Contributors

Cris van der Hoek

(author)
Utrecht University and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Cris van der Hoek has been teaching political philosophy and media studies at Utrecht University and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She chairs the Society for Women in Philosophy in the Netherlands (SWIP) and is editor of the journal Wijsgerig Perspectief. She has widely published in the field of feminist philosophy and authored the monograph Een Bewuste Paria (Boom 2000), in which feminist philosophical dialogues with Hannah Arendt are staged and discussed.