01903 a2200265 4500 1351628895 20250317111626.0 250312042018GB eng 9781351628891 Taylor & Francis GBP 41.99 BB 01 eng QDTQ thema HPQ bic PHI000000 bisac 195 bisac Jeffrey Bussolini Philosophical Ethology of Roberto Marchesini 1 Oxford Routledge 20181019 292 p Roberto Marchesini is an Italian philosopher and ethologist whose work is significant for the rethinking of animality and human–animal relations. Throughout such important books as Il dio Pan (1988), Il concetto di soglia (1996), Post-human (2002), Intelligenze plurime (2008), Epifania animale (2014), and Etologia filosofica (2016), he offers a scathing critique of reductive, mechanistic models of animal behaviour, as well as a positive contribution to zooanthropological and phenomenological methods for understanding animal life. Centred on the dynamic and performative field of interactions and relations in the world, his critical and speculative approach to the cognitive life sciences offers a vision of animals as acting subjects and bearers of culture, whose action and agency is also indispensable to human culture. In tracing the ways in which we share our lives and histories with animals in different contexts of interaction, Marchesini’s cutting-edge philosophical ethology also contributes to an overarching philosophical anthropology of the human as the animal that most requires the present and input of other animals. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. Brett Buchanan B01 Matthew Chrulew B01 6309 6309