Pets, people, and pragmatism / / Erin McKenna

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248299603316
• Autore: McKenna Erin <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-8232-5240-X; 0-8232-5288-4; 0-8232-5116-0
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages)
• Collana: American Philosophy
• Disciplina: 179/.3
• Soggetti: Animals (Philosophy); Human-animal relationships
• 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: Understanding domestication and various philosophical views -- Horses -- American pragmatism -- Dogs -- Cats -- Conclusion: Making things better.
• Sommario/riassunto: Pets, People, and Pragmatism examines human relationships with pets without assuming that such relations are either benign or unnatural and to be avoided. The book addresses a lack of respect in pet–people relationships; for respectful relationships to be a real possibility, however, humans must make the effort to understand the beings with which we live, work, and play.American pragmatism understands that humans and other animal beings have been interacting and transforming each other for thousands of years. There is nothing “unnatural” about the human domestication of other animal beings, though domestication does raise specific practical and ethical questions. A pragmatist account of our relationship with those animal beings commonly considered as pets does not prohibit the use of these beings in research, entertainment, competition, or work. It does, however, find abuse and neglect ethical.Because abuse can occur in any use of other animal beings, this pragmatist account takes up the abusive practices in research, entertainment, competition, and work without arguing that these practices are inherently abusive. Some of the ; sources of abuse have been addressed by utilitarian and deontological accounts, but a pragmatist evolutionary perspective offers unique insights and results in some surprising conclusions: For instance, there may be an ethical obligation to let a horse race, a dog show, or a cat compete in agility.Pets, People, and Pragmatism embarks on a philosophical journey that will captivate scholars and pet enthusiasts alike. It provides an important contribution to longstanding debates in the area of animal issues and strengthens the idea of multiple approaches to nonhuman beings. It also opens space for approaches that challenge some of the assumptions in the field of philosophy that have resulted in a dualistic and hierarchical approach to metaphysics and ethics.

The Etruscans in the modern imagination / / Sam Solecki

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795997903321
• Autore: Solecki Sam
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 0-2280-1577-4; 0-2280-1576-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 pages)
• Collana: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• Classificazione: cci1icc
• Disciplina: 937.5
• Soggetti: Etruscans; Europe Civilization Etruscan influences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface: The Return of the Repressed -- Acknowledgments -- Antique Matters -- Introduction: The Etruscans from Empire to Defeat … Assimilation … Return -- Creating a Taste for the Etruscans -- Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Etruscan Chapter in The History of the Art of Antiquity (1764) -- Sir William Hamilton and Josiah Wedgwood: The Indispensable Connoisseur and the Potter Who Made the Etruscans Visible, -- Fashionable, and ; Popular -- William Blake: What Is an “Etruscan” Doing in “An Island in the Moon” (1784–85)? -- Barthold Georg Niebuhr: The Return of the Etruscans in The History of Rome (1812) -- Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino: Selling Out the Etruscans -- Thomas Babington Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), a Poem of Empire -- Mrs Hamilton Gray and George Dennis: English Travellers -- Etruscans in Basel, Rome, Massachusetts, Paris, London, and Vienna -- Johann Jakob Bachofen: Das Mutterrecht (1861), The Saga of Tanaquil (1870), and an Etruscan Queen -- Etruscan Vases: Prosper Mérimée, Stendhal, and Gustave Flaubert -- Etruscans in America: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Dream (1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (1860), and Emily Dickinson's Etruscan Triptych -- Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Edith Reveley: The Sarcophagus of the Married Couple -- Anatole France's The Red Lily (1894), a Glance at Marcel Proust, and Etruscan Humour -- Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900): Etruscan Dreams -- The Etruscans after Lawrence -- Aldous Huxley's Etruscan Decade: Those Barren Leaves (1925) and “After the Fireworks” (1930), with a Glance at Roger Fry -- D.H. Lawrence's Etruscan Places (1932): The Invention of the Etruscans for the Twentieth Century and Margaret Drabble's Lawrentian -- The Dark Flood Rises (2016) -- Raymond Queneau: How a Restless Surrealist and Future Pataphysician Resurrected the Etruscans in The Bark Tree (1933) -- Mika Waltari's The Etruscan (1955): Civilizations in Crisis and the Fate of Spirit -- Peggy Glanville-Hicks’s Etruscan Concerto (1954): Etruscan Music Imagined -- The Etruscans Enter Our World: The Holocaust, Modernism, the Cold War, Hollywood, Phenomenology, and Marilyn Monroe -- Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962): EtruscansJewsItalians -- Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and David Smith: Etruscan Affinities, and a Note on Massimo Campigli -- Zbigniew Herbert and Wisława Szymborska: Etruscans, Poles, and “Peoples Unlucky in History” -- Rika Lesser’s Etruscan Things (1983): If Stones Could Speak or Lithic Prosopopoeia -- Don Siegel’s The Killers (1964) and William Gibson’s Idoru (1996): When Is an Etruscan Not an Etruscan? -- Anne Carson: “Canicula di Anna” (1984) and Norma Jeane Baker in Etruria -- Afterword: Nostos -- Appendix: Etruscan Sightings -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.