Abstract

Intento aquí proponer y esbozar una “ontología animal” u ontología de la “animalidad”, como fundamento teórico para entender a otros animales no humanos como siendo “sujetos” y a muchas otras especies como siendo poseedoras de “cultura”, con independencia del nivel de simplicidad o de complejidad que tengan dichos sujetos y culturas al contemplarlos desde nuestra perspectiva humana, y como fundamento teórico para romper y expandir el estrecho sentido con el que hasta ahora hemos estado empleando conceptos como “sujeto” y “subjetividad”, “intersubjetividad”, “cultura” y “relación intercultural”.It is my aim here to outline and put forward an “animal ontology” or ontologyof “animality” as a theoretical foundation to understand another nonhuman animals as “subjects” and many other species as holders of “culture” as well, independently of the level of simplicity or complexity such subjects and cultures have when contemplated from our human point of view, and as a theoretical foundation to break and expand the limited meaning with which concepts such as “subject” and “subjectivity”, “intersubjectivity”, “culture” and “intercultural relationship” have been used up to now