Vinciane Despret est philosophe, chercheuse au département de philosophie de l'université de Liège. Elle est l’auteure de plusieurs livres sur la question animale qui font référence, notamment Bêtes et hommes (Gallimard, 2007) et Penser comme un rat (Quae, 2009). Elle a également publié, avec Isabelle Stengers, Les Faiseuses d’histoires. Que font les femmes à la pensée ? (La Découverte, 2011) et Que diraient les animaux... si on leur posait les bonnes questions ? (Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond/La Découverte, 2012,2014).
This moving book abounds with examples and stories from ethologists about the fruitful exchanges that result from research when it considers the question of animals from an egalitarian perspective.
Vinciane Despret shares with us the anxieties and joys of researchers who today converse with their monkeys or parrots! With her we follow the transformations available to each of them. But, alongside these transformations, do not all these beings produced by our scientific practices present us with a political question?
A new, revised and extended edition of the book published in 2002 by Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond.
Vinciane Despret is a philosopher and researcher in the Philosophy Department of the University of Liège. She is the author of several authoritative books on the study of animals, in particular, Que diraient les animaux… si on leur posait les bonnes questions ? (Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond/La Découverte, 2012) (What Would Animals Say if We Asked the Right Questions, trans. Brett Buchanan, 2016, University of Minnesota Press) and Habiter en oiseau (Living like a bird) (Actes Sud, 2019).