title: Thinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction
author: Matthew Calarco
description: "Concise, incisive, and written with exemplary clarity, this book provides all of the background necessary to understand the philosophical and political stakes of current debates around the status of animals in relation to humans. It will appeal to non-specialists and specialists alike." (Brian Massumi <i>University of Montral</i>)<br /><br />"A major work of synthesis that makes sense of the already almost unsurveyable field of critical animal studies. Practical and pragmatic, yet carrying a strong theoretical punch, it will be a point of reference for future discussions in the field." (Eduardo Mendieta)<br /><br />"Surveying the disparate and sometimes rocky terrain of animal studies from Aristotle through Haraway with grace and insight, this little book synthesizes an abundance of material, movements, and positions in a breathtaking, not to mention extremely helpful, manner." (Kelly Oliver)
zlib_text: The Categories
  1
  The Categories
  By Aristotle
  Translated by E. M. Edghill
  
  The Categories
  2
  Section 1
  Part 1
  Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a
  common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for
  each. Thus, a real man and a figure in a picture can both lay claim to the
  name 'animal'; yet these are equivocally so named, for, though they have a
  common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for
  each. For should any one define in what sense each is an animal, his
  definition in the one case will be appropriate to that case only.
  On the other hand, things are said to be named 'univocally' which have
  both the name and the definition answering to the name in common. A
  man and an ox are both 'animal', and these are univocally so named,
  inasmuch as not only the name, but also the definition, is the same in both
  cases: for if a man should state in what sense each is an animal, the
  statement in the one case would be identical with t