The Animal Studies: an Interpretation Perspective

Abstract

At present, the study of animality admits diverse inquiries. Conceived, in principle, as an explicit variable of the differential, it supposes the critical value of an approach, especially if we think about the scope of that historical anthropocentrism that has dedicated to establishing borders between the human being and the rest of the species and has become an unquestionable paradigm of truth. So, to speak of animality is to speak of a contrastive question, which in the case of the humanistic disciplines has been penetrating deeply for some time.

Whereby, in this work is made a basic summary of the central approaches of Animal Studies, emphasizing precisely the arguments of its questioning of the Western concept of the human and specifically of the humanistic studies. And, in the same way, in the last section, it gives way to a series of clarifications alluding to literature and the type of treatments it has provided of animality and its meanings.