The Cat Who Questions My Humanity : Ruminations On Animals and Philosophy

• Karl Marx is adamant that property is not a material fact but a form of relation. In their manifesto, Marx and Engels seek a way out of this relation through the abolition of private property, allowing the opening of humanity without the presupposition of appropriation. In this essay, I use this framework to think about my relationship with Zoey, the cat who lives with me. I ask whether it is possible to conceive of this relation without its presupposition in the logics of ownership. Tracing anthropocentric philosophy from Heidegger to the contemporary, I seek a radical animal ethics against property.

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HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Etik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Ethics (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Filosofi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Philosophy (hsv//eng)

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