LEADER 04651nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910823333503321 005 20220401211017.0 010 $a1-283-00820-3 010 $a9786613008206 010 $a0-231-51823-4 024 7 $a10.7312/cava14544 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079742 035 $a(EBL)908669 035 $a(OCoLC)818856279 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000474756 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12169648 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474756 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10455666 035 $a(PQKB)11023519 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908669 035 $a(DE-B1597)458723 035 $a(OCoLC)714283474 035 $a(OCoLC)979739368 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231518239 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908669 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10449822 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079742 100 $a20080407d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe death of the animal $ea dialogue /$fPaola Cavalieri ; foreword by Peter Singer 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (165 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-14552-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [139]-149). 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tForeword /$rSinger, Peter --$tThe Death of the Animal /$rCavalieri, Paola --$tRoundtable I --$tHumanist and Posthumanist Antispeciesism /$rWolfe, Cary --$tNo Escape /$rMiller, Harlan B. --$tToward an Agnostic Animal Ethics /$rCalarco, Matthew --$tComments on Paola Cavalieri, "A Dialogue on Perfectionism" /$rCoetzee, John M. --$tII --$tNotes on Issues Raised by Matthew Calarco /$rCoetzee, John M. --$tPushing Things Forward /$rCavalieri, Paola --$tDistracting Difficulties /$rMiller, Harlan B. --$tOn Appetite, the Right to Life, and Rational Ethics /$rCoetzee, John M. --$t"On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings" /$rWolfe, Cary --$tBetween Life and Rights /$rCalarco, Matthew --$tNotes 330 $aWhile moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding of the nonhuman in such a way that the derogatory category of "the animal" becomes meaningless. In so doing, she presents a nonhierachical approach to ethics that better respects the value of the conscious self. Cavalieri opens with a dialogue between two imagined philosophers, laying out her challenge to moral perfectionism and tracing its influence on our attitudes toward the "unworthy." She then follows with a roundtable "multilogue" which takes on the role of reason in ethics and the boundaries of moral status. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner for Literature and author of The Lives of Animals, emphasizes the animality of human beings; Miller, a prominent analytic philosopher at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, dismantles the rationalizations of human bias; Cary Wolfe, professor of English at Rice University, advocates an active exposure to other worlds and beings; and Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida, extends ethical consideration to entities that traditionally have little or no moral status, such as plants and ecosystems. As Peter Singer writes in his foreword, the implications of this conversation extend far beyond the issue of the moral status of animals. They "get to the heart of some important differences about how we should do philosophy, and how philosophy can relate to our everyday life." From the divergences between analytical and continental approaches to the relevance of posthumanist thinking in contemporary ethics, the psychology of speciesism, and the practical consequences of an antiperfectionist stance, The Death of the Animal confronts issues that will concern anyone interested in a serious study of morality. 606 $aAnimals (Philosophy) 606 $aAnimal psychology 606 $aSpeciesism 606 $aIntellect 615 0$aAnimals (Philosophy) 615 0$aAnimal psychology. 615 0$aSpeciesism. 615 0$aIntellect. 676 $a179/.3 700 $aCavalieri$b Paola$f1950-$089584 701 $aSinger$b Peter$0144360 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823333503321 996 $aThe death of the animal$94003607 997 $aUNINA