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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779003503321

Titolo

Strangers to nature [[electronic resource] ] : animal lives and human ethics / / edited by Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012

ISBN

1-280-77022-8

9786613680990

0-7391-4549-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Logos: perspectives on modern society and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

Smulewicz-ZuckerGregory R. <1983->

Disciplina

179/.3

Soggetti

Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects

Human-animal relationships - Moral and ethical aspects

Animal rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

STRANGERS TO NATURE; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Incorporating New Ethical Traditions; 1 Imagining a World without the Violation of Animals; 2 Animal Rights and Kantian Ethics; 3 A Place for Animals in the Kingdom of Ends; 4 Interspecies Cosmopolitanism: Animal Rights without Metaphysical Foundations; 5 C. S. Lewis's Theology of Animals; Part II: Extending and Critiquing the Discourse; 6 The Ruses of Reason: Strategies of Exclusion; 7 Ideology in Animal Rights Advocacy: Sound Ethics, Dubious Practices; 8 Animal Rights and Social Relations

9 The Problem with Commodifying AnimalsPart III: Developing New Ethical Grounds; 10 Why We Have Ethical Obligations to Animals: Animal Welfare and the Common Good; 11 Relating to Animals in Space and Time: An Exercise in Moral Imagination; 12 Navigating Difference (again): Animal Ethics and Entangled Empathy; 13 Toward a Properly Post-Humanist Ethos of Somatic Sympathy; 14 Animal Ethics and Recollection; Appendix: Voices for Animals: A Fantasy on Animal Representation; Index; List of Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Strangers to Nature brings together many of the leading scholars who are working to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics.



This volume will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealing the breadth of theorizing about the human/non-human animal relationship that is currently taking place.