Cosmopolitan Animals

Prof Simon Glendinning (LSE)

Speaker: Dr Simon Glendinning (Reader in European Philosophy, LSE)

Title: Cosmopolitan Animals

Date: 20 March 2014

Room: MC301, Millennium City Building, University of Wolverhampton

Time: 17:30 - 19:30

Brief Abstract:

The idea of making a contribution to philosophy has been inseparable from the idea of contributing to a universal community, and this has often provided an impetus for thinking that world history has a cosmopolitan horizon, where no other is a foreigner, where we belong together as citizens of the world. What this idea has traditionally presumed is that the world history in question is exclusively human, and hence that the cosmopolitan community is the community of exclusively rational animality. In this lecture I will try to see whether we can imagine a form of cosmopolitanism that can make room for "fellow feelings" for other animals, for our most other others, the most foreign.

Brief Bio:

Simon Glendinning is Reader in European Philosophy in the European Institute at the London School of Economics. His current research interests lie mainly in the philosophy of Europe, but he has maintained a longstanding interest in the philosophy of animal life, and sits on the UK Home Office Animals in Science Committee.

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Dr Meena Dhanda (D.Phil. Oxford)
Reader in Philosophy and Cultural Politics,
Course Leader Philosophy,
Joint Course Leader MRes Human Sciences,
University of Wolverhampton,
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