Benedetta Piazzesi (Author)
Quodlibet
Physical Details: 256 pp.
Language: Italian
Nel corso della storia, il potere umano sugli animali ha subito profonde trasformazioni e ha visto avvicendarsi logiche diverse e talvolta contrapposte di governo animale. Ciò dimostra che non c’è niente di immutabile e inevitabile nel nostro modo di vedere gli animali, di sfruttarne il lavoro e di consumarne il corpo. Il volume ricostruisce storicamente ed esamina criticamente questi processi, a partire dagli argomenti filosofici classici che più hanno contribuito alla «naturalizzazione» del dominio umano sugli animali: la loro problematizzazione permette di cogliere le implicazioni teoriche della storia dello sfruttamento animale. Si vedrà allora come i principali mutamenti economici e politici che attraversano la modernità abbiano portato al cambiamento delle tecnologie di allevamento, e come nuove concezioni, filosofiche e scientifiche, degli animali si concretizzino in nuove logiche di sfruttamento. In tal senso, il libro s’inserisce nel dibattito contemporaneo sulla nozione foucaultiana di biopolitica, estendendone la pertinenza oltre la sfera antropologica: un ampliamento che non intende trasformare tale nozione in quella di un generico «potere sulla vita», ma consente, al contrario, di precisare le condizioni storiche in cui il potere ha cominciato a rivolgersi ai viventi, umani e non umani, fin nelle loro facoltà vitali. Del governo degli animali contribuisce al dibattito, particolarmente vivo in ambito filosofico, su tale questione, introducendo il lettore al campo di studi, ormai consolidato all’estero ma poco noto in Italia, dell’Animal History. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… Throughout history, human power over animals has undergone profound transformations and has seen the alternation of different and sometimes conflicting logics of animal governance. This shows that there is nothing immutable and inevitable in the way we see animals, exploit their labor and consume their bodies. The volume historically reconstructs and critically examines these processes, starting from the classic philosophical arguments that have contributed most to the "naturalization" of human domination over animals: their problematization allows us to grasp the theoretical implications of the history of animal exploitation. We will then see how the main economic and political changes that have occurred in modernity have led to changes in breeding technologies, and how new philosophical and scientific conceptions of animals materialize in new logics of exploitation. In this sense, the book fits into the contemporary debate on the Foucaultian notion of biopolitics, extending its relevance beyond the anthropological sphere: an expansion that does not intend to transform this notion into that of a generic "power over life", but on the contrary allows , to specify the historical conditions in which power began to address the living, human and non-human, right down to their vital faculties. Of the government of animals contributes to the debate, particularly lively in the philosophical field, on this question, introducing the reader to the field of studies, now consolidated abroad but little known in Italy, of Animal History.]
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