TY - JOUR AU - Oxana Timofeeva PY - 2013/01/09 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Negative Animal JF - Stasis JA - SJ VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://stasisjournal.net/index.php/journal/article/view/63 AB - In this paper, I analyze some aspects of Hegelian and post- Hegelian thought in order to demonstrate how the concepts of animality and negativity intersect in philosophical reflections on nature. In the first part, I consider the figure of the animal in Hegel’s work and show its necessary relation to negativity. In the second part, I return to Georges Bataille and Alexander Kojève’s discussion of the end of history, where negativity appears with a human face, as something that leaves animals behind. Finally, in the third part, I justify the animal’s claims on negativity as a force of transformation and change through a peculiar political ontology of the fish. ER -