Embrace Your Animality, Says French Philosopher

You're an animal, says Dominique Lestel, a French philosopher who opposes the separation of human and animal life.   In a new paper, Lestel reminds sociology readers that we are animals and says animals profoundly influence our culture – perhaps more so than they had initially thought. Western thought that the human species is highly developed and that sets the human species apart. Lestel instead advocates animality (our animal nature) and says humanization is an ongoing performative practice, rather than a historical threshold that was crossed long ago. read more

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