L’humanité face au tribunal des espèces : enjeux éthiques des bestiaires de science-fiction

This article studies what it means to question the axiological implications of a science fiction bestiary, no longer seen as a mere collection of species to be admired or confronted, but as a pole of agentivity in its own right, to the point of becoming the focus point of ethical and even socio-political questioning. Our demonstration will be based on the study of four novels, Roland C. Wagner's Cette Crédille qui nous ronge ([2008] 1991) and Le Chant du Cosmos (1999), Pierre Bordage's Les Fables de l'Humpur (1999), and Alain Damasio's Les Furtifs (2019). All put science fictional inventive animal representations in a critical perspective, newly confronting humanity with the tribunal of species.