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Only For Them: A Manifesto for Animality through Philosophy and Politics

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Year after year, day after day,minute after minute, billions ofnon-human animals are slaughteredfor several purposes andaims (food, clothing, entertainment,research). An analogoussituation whose objects were humansinstead of animals wouldobviously never be accepted. Butwhy do we tolerate and even justifyone practice while deploringthe other? The answer is far this book is an attempt atfinding it beyond the everyday life,through politics and philosophy.

104 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 31, 2014

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Leonardo Caffo

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Leonardo Caffo (Catania, 1988) è un filosofo, scrittore, curatore editoriale e opinionista italiano. E' professore di Estetica della Moda, dei Media e del Design alla NABA di Milano, insegna inoltre Ecologia dell'Arte alla IULM sempre a Milano. In precedenza ha insegnato Filosofia Teoretica al Politecnico di Torino.
Scrive sull'inserto culturale «la Lettura » del «Corriere della Sera».
Tra i suoi ultimi libri: Il cane e il filosofo (Mondadori 2020) e Quattro capanne. O della semplicità (nottetempo 2020). Per Einaudi ha pubblicato La vita di ogni giorno (2016), Fragile umanità (2017), Vegan (2018) e Velocità di fuga (2022).

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