La questione animale nella filosofia contemporanea

This thesis investigates how contemporary philosophy (from 1970) deals with the animal issue. The principal aim of this work is to single out three different ways to face the problem: ethical, phenomenological and genealogical. The thesis outlines characteristics and limits of these approaches and tries to make a dialogue between them, in order to find new perspectives and underline further lines of research. From Singer to Derrida, from Deleuze to Agamben, from Regan to Plumwood, each chapter of the whole document follows the purpose to compare analytic and continental views on the topic, in order to emphasize the main thematical issues of the authors analysed.