Pensar (con) lo animal

Abstract

This article will take a brief tour of some important moments in the history of philosophy in Western modernity, which allow articulating a thought with-the-animal, understood as a relationship with the otherness of the living. Undoubtedly, it is impossible to cover all the references to animality throughout Western philosophy, but beyond this attempt, solely and strictly academic, there is a disturbance in the background that forces us to rethink the way of understanding the relationship with the living animal The animal allows us to understand that we are attached to a totality that amazes us, a living totality that we cannot apprehend and that escapes the measure of human subjectivity. In this sense, the animal necessarily appears as an unattainable alterity that bursts in and demands to be thought.