PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE NON-HUMAN ANIMAL
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHENOMENOLOGY IN COOPERATION WITH THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY Volume 56 Editor: John J. Drummond, Fordham University Editorial Board: Elizabeth A. Behnke, Ferndale, WA, USA David Carr, Emory University Stephan Galt Crowell, Rice University Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic University Burt Hopkins, Seattle University José Huertas-Jourda, Wilfrid Laurier University William R. McKenna, Miami University Algis Mickunas, Ohio University J. N. Mohanty, Temple University Tom Nenon, The University of Memphis Thomas M. Seebohm, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz Gail Soffer, Rome, Italy Richard M. Zaner, Vanderbilt University Scope The purpose of this series is to foster the development of phenomenological philosophy through creative research. Contemporary issues in philosophy other disciplines and in culture generally, offer opportunities for the application of phenomenological methods that call for creative responses. Although the work of several generations of thinkers has provided phenomenology with many results with which to approach these challenges, a truly successful response to them will require building on this work with new analyses and methodological innovations.
PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE NON-HUMAN ANIMAL At the Limits of Experience edited by CORINNE PAINTER Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan and CHRISTIAN LOTZ Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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for Socrates, the feline member of our family
Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: Phenomenology and the Question of the Non-Human Animal 1 Corinne PAINTER and Christian LOTZ SECTION I: PHENOMENOLOGY, ONTOLOGY, AND ANTHROPOLOGY 2. Attunement, Deprivation, and Drive: Heidegger and Animality 13 Gerard KUPERUS 3. Being Beyond: Aristotle s and Plessner s Accounts of Animal Responsiveness 29 Marjolein OELE 4. How Not to be a Jellyfish: Human Exceptionalism and the Ontology of Reflection 39 Ted TOADVINE SECTION II: PHENOMENOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND LANGUAGE 5. How do Primates Think? Phenomenological Analyses of Non-language Systems of Representation in Higher Primates and Humans 57 Dieter LOHMAR 6. Phenomenology and the Study of Animal Behavior 75 Erika RUONAKOSKI SECTION III: PHENOMENOLOGY AND ETHICS 7. The Intentionality and Animal Heritage of Moral Experience: What We can Learn from Dogs About Moral Theory 85 Charles S. BROWN 8. Appropriating the Philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein: Animal Psyche, Empathy, and Moral Subjectivity 97 Corinne M. PAINTER vii
viii CONTENTS SECTION IV: AT THE MARGINS OF PHENOMENOLOGY 9. The Human as Just an Other Animal: Madness, Disability, and Foucault s Bestiary 117 Licia CARLSON 10. The Intertwining of Incommensurables: Yann Martel s Life of Pi 135 James MENSCH Notes on Contributors 149 Index 153
Acknowledgments The editors of this volume would like to thank Emporia State University (Emporia, Kansas) for supporting this project with a grant, which provided monetary support for our research. We would also like to thank the contributors to this volume, for their insightful and provocative essays, which challenge each and every one of us to rethink our relationship with our nonhuman animal neighbors. Finally, we would like to thank our animal friends, who, in their own way, and without knowing it, were the inspiration for this volume. ix