Introduction to Multispecies Theory in the Humanities and Social Sciences

This course will focus on such problems as: posthumanism and the emergence of non-anthropocentric human and social sciences, 'multispecism' in the re-rethinking of disciplines, redefinition of the concept of life in the human and social sciences by including non-human subjects, animals and plants as others, rethinking the category of the social as a collective of humans and non-humans, nonintentinal agency (as well as understanding of vitalism and animism), animal holocaust, multispecies art and living organisms as media in art (bio-art), ethics of compassion and the problem of the dignity of the non-human (including recent interest in the dignity of plants).