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“Increasingly, one by one, animals are leaving the stage, leaving humanity alone with its representations, its pets and toys.”

Academician Oxana Timofeeva, who continues her studies at the center of the problems of contemporary philosophy, builds The History of Animals, with the name she borrowed from Aristotle, on a philosophical line, and proposes to "read the history of philosophy as the history of animals", so to speak.

While animals today are included in our daily life, language, and world of thought mostly through domestication, confinement, or visualization, this study examines the "animal issue" in a broad philosophical tradition from Aristotle to Hegel, from Adorno to Deleuze, and to Bataille, Kafka, It discusses it by referring to the texts of writers such as Platonov, and offers a new way of thinking and discussing, free from all the distinctions we are familiar with between animals and humans, and all sharp definitions of humanity and animality.

“If philosophy is the love of wisdom, Oxana Timofeeva's History of Animals is a work of philosophy composed of the love of animals. Rather than simply condemning philosophy for its wrong attitude towards animals, he attempts to re-understand how philosophers from Aristotle to Deleuze can be interpreted differently in order to restore dignity to animals. The History of Animals teaches us, humans, to unite with all 'revolutionary animals' to win a new world.”

- Benjamin Noys -

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Presented by: Slavoj Žižek

Prepared for Publication by: Müge Karahan

Final Reading : Arif Yıldız

Cover Design: Deniz Akkol/Kolektif Design

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Printings: 1st Printing