Bücher der Reihe Multispecies Encounters

Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who 'we' humans think 'we' are. This book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicized.

This book explores the way in which ancient Greek models of philosophy as an attempt to live 'the good life' can be realised through permaculture, showing how practices of sustainable farming or ethical gardening can provide us with the best opportunity to acquire 'moral knowledge' through close relationships with other living beings.

Focusing on totemic relationships with animals among the Bebelibe of West Africa, this book employs the concepts of 'presencing' and 'the ontological penumbra' to shed light on the ways in which people make sense of the world around them, showing how these concepts account for empathetic and intersubjective encounters with non-human animals.