Human-Animal Boundary

The Human–Animal Boundary shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the question "what is human?" with the question "what is animal?" The objective is to expand the imaginative scope of human–animal relationships by combining perspectives from different disciplines, traditions, and cultural backgrounds.

Introduction

Nandita Batra and Mario Wenning


I. Contesting Exceptionalism


1. Bridging the Abyss: Re-interpreting Heidegger's Animals as a Basis for inter-species Understanding

Joshua A. Bergamin

2. Ramayana's Hanuman-Animal, Human or Divine

Sukanya B. Senapati

3. Aesop: Figuring the Human/Animal Boundary

John Hartigan


II. Representing the Human-Animal Boundary


4. 'Zones of Non-Knowledge': Facing The Open with R. M. Rilke, Martin Heidegger, and Giorgio Agamben

Sabine Lenore Müller

5. The Avoidance of Moral Responsibility towards Animals: Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the Human Animal Boundary

Tomaz Grusovnik

6. The Cattle in the Long Cedar Springs Draw

Gary Comstock

7. Re-writing the Human-Animal Divide: Humanism and Octavia Butler's "Amborg"

Aparajita Nanda

8. Milton's Elephant

James P. Conlan


III. Re-Situating the Human/Animal Boundary


9. The Moral Duties of Dolphins

Sara Gavrell Ortiz

10. Great Apes and Lesser Humans: Goodall and the Geographic Entangled in Uhuru

Kristian Bjørkdahl

11. The Empress and the Beast: Finding a Philosophical Voice in Fiction

Alison Suen

12. A Bestiary for the Anthropocene: The End of Nature and the Future of Animal Life on Planet Earth

Eduardo Mendieta