Hayot 76: "[O]ne might really want to resist the idea that our philosophy of the human ought to focus on what seems to make humans absolutely special"
Instead, we could focus on "the various features of human life that make humans just one of any number of types of beings and things that exist side by side and act upon one another to make human social life meaningful and real"
"the work done in and around the lives of objects and things, in work from people like Elaine Scarry or Bill Brown [or] the work in animal studies done by writers like Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka [...] and Cary Wolfe" (199, in footnote)