Beyond Nature: Animal Liberation, Marxism, and Critical Theory by Marco Maurizi

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A stirring argument that only through a revolutionary marxist perspective can both humans and non-human animals win liberation.

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In Beyond Nature Marco Maurizi offers a unique perspective on the question of animal liberation. Because animal rights activism has hitherto been characterized by an abstract moralism, Maurizi proposes instead a historical-materialist analysis of the relationship between humans and non-human animals.By contrasting the thinking of Hegel, Marx, and the Frankfurt School with classical authors in the field of animal rights (such as Singer, Regan, and Francione) this text offers an alternative, social, and dialectical theory of animality and a different practical approach to the problem of animal suffering. The hopes for change placed in veganism, liberationism and animal activism are here assumed in a political, revolutionary perspective, in which human and animal liberation finally cease to oppose each other.

Author Biography

Marco Maurizi teaches Philosophy and History at the Lombardo Radice Institute in Rome, and holds courses and seminaries at the University of Tor Vergata. He has published several books, translations and articles on animal liberation, Critical Theory and Marxism.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1  The Soul of Animals under Socialism 2  Did You Say 'Dialectics'? 3  Singer & Sons 4  Against Animal Liberation Ideology 5  Critical Failures 6  Hegelian Animal Spirits 7  The Structure of the BookPart 1 Critique of Animal Liberation Ideology1 What Is Antispeciesism? 1  Three Different Definitions 2  A Sociological Fallacy 3  Metaphysical and Historical Antispeciesism 4  Animal Liberation and Human Liberation?2 On the Genesis of Speciesism 1  The Ambiguity of Speciesism 2  The Origin of Speciesism 3  How? 4  Speciesism and Human Liberation3 Animal Right Activism and Its Discontents 1  Two Forms of Praxis: Conflict and Inclusion 2  Conflict 3  Inclusion 4  The 'Bottom-Up' Change Is a Disguised Hierarchical Change 5  Veganism Is Not a Mode of ProductionPart 2 Marxism and Animal Liberation4 Marxism and Animal Rights 1  One Struggle? 2  Animal Rights vs. Marx 3  The Role of Animals in Marxism 4  The Real Problem: Animal Alienation5 Marxism and the Repression of Nature 1  Animal and Capital 2  History and Natural History in Marx and Engels 3  From Primitive Communism to the Early States 4  Conclusion6 The Dialectical Animal 1  Animality and Anthropopoiesis 2  From the Institute for Social Research to the 'Frankfurt School' 3  From Nature to Animals 4  The Structure of Domination 5  The Specific Role of Animals in the General Scheme of Domination 6  The Dialectical Animal 7  Materialistic Solidarity 8  A New 'Dialectics of Nature' 9  The Reconciliation of NaturePart 3 Conclusion: Beyond Nature7 Towards a Post-Neolithic Society 1  Materialism and Techn" 2  Universal History as a Catastrophe 3  The Universal Human Being and the Enlarged Animal Society 4  Rien faire comme une bête8 The Aporetic Nature of the Theory/Praxis OppositionEpilogue: Antispeciesism and AnticapitalismReferencesIndex

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In Beyond Nature Marco Maurizi offers a unique perspective on the question of animal liberation. Because animal rights activism has hitherto been characterized by an abstract moralism, Maurizi proposes instead a historical-materialist analysis of the relationship between humans and non-human animals. By contrasting the thinking of Hegel, Marx, and the Frankfurt School with classical authors in the field of animal rights (such as Singer, Regan, and Francione) this text offers an alternative, social, and dialectical theory of animality and a different practical approach to the problem of animal suffering. The hopes for change placed in veganism, liberationism and animal activism are here assumed in a political, revolutionary perspective, in which human and animal liberation finally cease to oppose each other.

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Beyond Nature is a theoretically rigorous book, but because of its unique approach to the extremely popular issue of animal liberation, it will be of potential interest to a broad number of activists already involved in the movement, as well as those drawn to the question but put off by the moralism of the hardline.

Details ISBN1642597813 Author Marco Maurizi Publisher Haymarket Books Format Paperback Pages 212 Series Historical Materialism Year 2022 ISBN-13 9781642597813 Imprint Haymarket Books Place of Publication Chicago Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2022-10-20 UK Release Date 2022-10-20 ISBN-10 1642597813 Subtitle Animal Liberation, Marxism, and Critical Theory DEWEY 179.3 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-01-02 Publication Date 2022-09-06 US Release Date 2022-09-06 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this

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