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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967980703321

Titolo

Animal subjects : an ethical reader in a posthuman world / / edited by Jodey Castricano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008

ISBN

9781299313149

1299313140

9781435656314

1435656318

9781554580774

1554580773

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 pages)

Collana

Cultural studies series

Environmental humanities

Altri autori (Persone)

CastricanoCarla Jodey <1947->

Disciplina

179/.3

Soggetti

Animal rights

Animal welfare

Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects

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

Introduction: Animal subjects in a posthuman world / Jodey Castricano -- Chicken / Donna Haraway -- Selfish genes, sociobiology and animal respect / Rod Preece -- Anatomy as speech act : Vesalius, Descartes, Rembrandt or the question of "the animal" in the early modern anatomy lesson / Dawne McCance -- A missed opportunity : humanism, anti-humanism and the animal question / Paola Cavalieri -- Thinking other-wise : cognitive science, deconstruction and the (non)speaking (non)human animal subject / Cary Wolfe -- Animals in moral space / Michael Allen Fox, Lesley McLean -- Electric sheep and the new argument from nature / Angus Taylor -- Monsters : the case of marineland / John Sorenson -- "I sympathize in their pains and pleasures" : women and animals in Mary Wollstonecraft / Barbara K. Seeber -- Animals as persons / David Sztybel -- Power and irony : one tortured cat and many



twisted angles to our moral schizophrenia about animals / Lesli Bisgould -- Blame and shame? How can we reduce unproductive animal experimentation? / Anne Innis Dagg -- On animal immortality : an argument for the possibility of animal immortality in light of the history of philosophy / Johanna Tito.

Sommario/riassunto

Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. The contributors to Animal Subjects are scholars and writers from diverse perspectives whose work calls into question the boundaries that divide the animal kingdom from humanity, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between