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Author |
: Matthew Calarco |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2004-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0826464130 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780826464132 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Philosophy by : Matthew Calarco
Animal Philosophy is the first text to look at the place and treatment of animals in Continental thought. A collection of essential primary and secondary readings on the animal question, it brings together contributions from the following key Continental thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, Levinas, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, Ferry, Cixous, and Irigaray. Each reading is followed by commentary and analysis from a leading contemporary thinker. The coverage of the subject is exceptionally broad, ranging across perspectives that include existentialism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, phenomenology and feminism. This anthology is an invaluable one-stop resource for anyone researching, teaching or studying animal ethics and animal rights in the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, literary theory, sociology, environmental studies and gender and women's studies.
Author |
: Vanessa Lemm |
Publisher |
: Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780823230273 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0823230279 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy by : Vanessa Lemm
This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche's corpus as a whole Lemm argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche's thought. Instead, it stands at the center of his renewal of the practice and meaning of philosophy itself. Lemm provides an original contribution to on-going debates on the essence of humanism and its future. At the center of this new interpretation stands Nietzsche's thesis that animal life and its potential for truth, history, and morality depends on a continuous antagonism between forgetfulness (animality) and memory (humanity). This relationship accounts for the emergence of humanity out of animality as a function of the antagonism between civilization and culture. By taking the antagonism of culture and civilization to be fundamental for Nietzsche's conception of humanity and its becoming, Lemm gives a new entry point into the political significance of Nietzsche's thought. The opposition between civilization and culture allows for the possibility that politics is more than a set of civilizational techniques that seek to manipulate, dominate, and exclude the animality of the human animal. By seeing the deep-seated connections of politics with culture, Nietzsche orients politics beyond the domination over life and, instead, offers the animality of the human being a positive, creative role in the organization of life. Lemm's book presents Nietzsche as the thinker of an emancipatory and affirmative biopolitics. This book will appeal not only to readers interested in Nietzsche, but also to anyone interested in the theme of the animal in philosophy, literature, cultural studies and the arts, as well as those interested in the relation between biological life and politics.
Author |
: Roger Scruton |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2006-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0826494048 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780826494047 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Rights and Wrongs by : Roger Scruton
In this acclaimed book, Scruton takes the issues relating to vivisection, hunting, animal testing and BSE and places them in a wider framework of thought and feeling. Now available in paperback
Author |
: Robert W. Lurz |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2009-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139481021 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139481029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Philosophy of Animal Minds by : Robert W. Lurz
This volume is a collection of fourteen essays by leading philosophers on issues concerning the nature, existence, and our knowledge of animal minds. The nature of animal minds has been a topic of interest to philosophers since the origins of philosophy, and recent years have seen significant philosophical engagement with the subject. However, there is no volume that represents the current state of play in this important and growing field. The purpose of this volume is to highlight the state of the debate. The issues which are covered include whether and to what degree animals think in a language or in iconic structures, possess concepts, are conscious, self-aware, metacognize, attribute states of mind to others, and have emotions, as well as issues pertaining to our knowledge of and the scientific standards for attributing mental states to animals.
Author |
: Stanley Cavell |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2009-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231145152 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231145152 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophy and Animal Life by : Stanley Cavell
This groundbreaking collection of contributions by leading philosophers offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself.
Author |
: Angus Taylor |
Publisher |
: Broadview Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2009-05-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781551119762 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1551119765 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animals and Ethics - Third Edition by : Angus Taylor
Can animals be regarded as part of the moral community? To what extent, if at all, do they have moral rights? Are we wrong to eat them, hunt them, or use them for scientific research? Can animal liberation be squared with the environmental movement? Taylor traces the background of these debates from Aristotle to Darwin and sets out the views of numerous contemporary philosophers—including Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Mary Anne Warren, J. Baird Callicott, and Martha Nussbaum—with ethical theories ranging from utilitarianism to eco-feminism. The new edition also includes provocative quotations from some of the major writers in the field. As the final chapter insists, animal ethics is more than just an “academic” question: it is intimately connected both to our understanding of what it means to be human and to pressing current issues such as food shortages, environmental degradation, and climate change.
Author |
: Bob Fischer |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2021-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351052016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351052012 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Ethics by : Bob Fischer
There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature. There aren’t many introductions to the practice of doing animal ethics. Bob Fischer’s Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction fills that gap, offering an accessible model of how animal ethics can be done today. The book takes up classic issues, such as the ethics of eating meat and experimenting on animals, but tackles them in an empirically informed and nuanced way. It also covers a range of relatively neglected issues in animal ethics, such as the possibility of insect sentience and the ethics of dealing with pests. Finally, the book doesn’t assess every current practice using standard ethical theories, but tries to evaluate some of them using the moral frameworks endorsed by those involved. So, for instance, there is a chapter on the way that animal care and use committees try to justify some of the educational uses of animals, and the chapter on zoos considers the way that international zoological societies justify compromising animal welfare. The book wraps up with a discussion of the future of animal ethics. Each chapter opens with a helpful initial overview of the chapter and ends with a list of suggested readings to help students go further on their own. Key Features Covers animal ethics from an empirically informed perspective, bringing philosophy into conversation with key issues in animal science, conservation biology, economics, ethology, and legal studies, among other fields Provides ample coverage of the most salient current topics, including, for example: Debates about which animals are sentient The suffering of wild animals Research ethics The boundaries of activism Avoids suggesting that animal ethics is simply the practice of applying the right general theory to a problem, instead allowing readers to first work out the specific costs and benefits of making ethical decisions Impresses upon the reader the need for her to work out for herself the best way forward with difficult ethical issues, suggesting that progress can indeed be made Includes summaries and recommended readings at the end of each chapter
Author |
: Clare Mac Cumhaill |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2023-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781984898982 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1984898981 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Metaphysical Animals by : Clare Mac Cumhaill
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II. The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations. Neither the great Enlightenment thinkers of the past, the logical innovators of the early twentieth century, or the new Existentialist philosophy trickling across the Channel, could make sense of this new human reality of limitless depravity and destructive power, the women felt. Their answer was to bring philosophy back to life. We are metaphysical animals, they realized, creatures that can question their very being. Who am I? What is freedom? What is human goodness? The answers we give, they believed, shape what we will become. Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a lively portrait of women who shared ideas, but also apartments, clothes and even lovers. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today.
Author |
: Julian H. Franklin |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231134223 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231134224 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy by : Julian H. Franklin
This theoretically rigorous text examines all the major arguments for animal rights in order to develop an ethical system that includes humans and animals.
Author |
: Tom Regan |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2003-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780742599383 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0742599388 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Rights, Human Wrongs by : Tom Regan
Regan provides the theoretical framework that grounds a responsible pro-animal rights perspective, and ultimately explores how asking moral questions about other animals can lead to a better understanding of ourselves.