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Animal Lives and Human Ethics
Strangers to Nature
Animal Lives and Human Ethics
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Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly interrogate our conduct in the world without a deeper understanding of how our actions affect animals. It is crucial that the human-animal relationship become more central to ethical inquiry. This volume brings together many of the leading scholars who work to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics. The contributors examine the radical developments that change how we think about the status of non-human animals in our society and our moral obligations. Strangers to Nature will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealing the breadth of theorizing about current human/non-human animal relationships.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Incorporating New Ethical Traditions
Chapter 1: Imagining a World without the Violation of Animals
by Drucilla Cornell
Chapter 2: Animal Rights and Kantian Ethics
by Julian H. Franklin
Chapter 3: A Place for Animals in the Kingdom of Ends
by Heather M. Kendrick
Chapter 4: Interspecies Cosmopolitanism: Animal Rights without Metaphysical Foundations
by Eduardo Mendieta
Chapter 5: C.S. Lewis’s Theology of Animals
by Andrew Linzey
Part II: Extending and Critiquing the Discourse
Chapter 6: The Ruses of Reason: Strategies of Exclusion
Paola Cavalieri
Chapter 7: Ideology in Animal Rights Advocacy: Sound Ethics, Dubious Practices
by Rod Preece
Chapter 8: Animal Rights and Social Relations
by Ted Benton
Chapter 9: The Problem with Commodifying Animals
by Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
Part III: Developing New Ethical Grounds
Chapter 10: Why We Have Ethical Obligations to Animals: Animal Welfare and the Common Good
by Michael J. Thompson
Chapter 11: Relating to Animals in Space and Time: An Exercise in Moral Imagination
by Michael Allen Fox
Chapter 12: Navigating Difference (again): Animal Ethics and Entangled Empathy
by Lori Gruen
Chapter 13: Toward a Properly Post-Humanist Ethos of Somatic Sympathy
by Ralph R. Acampora
Chapter 14: Animal Ethics and Recollection
by Bernard Rollin
Appendix: Voices for Animals: A Fantasy on Animal Representation
by Peter Sloterdijk (Translated by Lisa Marie Anderson)
Index
List of Contributors
Product details
| Published | Mar 22 2012 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 294 |
| ISBN | 9798216302384 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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