Document type : podcast of the France Inter program L'Heure Bleue (53 min), Wednesday March 22, 2023.
Authors: Laure Adler, Elodie Royer, Lilian Alleaume, Jean-Baptiste Audibert, Sascha Sais, Céline Villegas. Guest : Florence Burgat
Preview: In her latest book "L'inconscient des animaux" (Seuil), Florence Burgat explores our relationship with animals, not in terms of human opinions on animals but focusing on what they reveal about themselves and their feelings.
A philosopher of living animals and plants, Florence Burgat rejects anthropocentrism. Following on from Être le bien d'un autre (belonging to others, Payot et Rivages, 2018), which explored legal characterisations of animals that reifies them, and Qu'est-ce qu'une plante? (what is a plant? Seuil, 2020), which offered readers a phenomenology of plant life, Florence Burgat is now tackling the animal psyche.
Sound archives :
- Jacques Lacan à propos de l’inconscient. Archive Ina, March 9, 1974
- Claude Lévi Strauss à propos des rapports de l’Homme aux autres espèces vivantes. Archive Ina, April 15, 1981 (guest of Jacques Chancel)
- Jacques Derrida évoque la différence entre l’animal et l’Homme. Archive Ina du 16 juillet 1999. Archive Ina, July 16, 1999 (guest of Alain Veinstein)
- Reportage en Espagne sur la garde alternée de l’animal de compagnie instaurée suite à un divorce. France 2, January 3, 2023
- L’alerte rouge du rapport GIEC. Report from Célia Quilleret, France Inter, March 20, 2023
