Anthropo (andro) centrism and species. Ideology and naturalization of specism in liberal times

Abstract

The alleged lack of emotionality in political judgments derived from the use of enlightened reason has led to the generation of a biopolitical context that has assessed the entire order known between the rational and positive and (versus) the irrational and despised. In this second order of irrationalities, all those discourses and communities that are isolated from the reference patronymic (the white man in modernity period), have been located in a situation of marginality. In the following work we show how through the construction of this hegemonic discourse, premodern but intensified by the enlightened narrative, has been tried to naturalize an asymmetric order in the relation between species, which we call speciesism. This speciesism, we maintain, is but a derivation of androcentrism as a dominant discourse that is expressed in other marginalities such as patriarchy, racism, classism or capacitism.

doi: https://doi.org/10.20318/eunomia.2017.3640