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Titolo: | Strangers to nature [[electronic resource] ] : animal lives and human ethics / / edited by Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
Disciplina: | 179/.3 |
Soggetto topico: | Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects |
Human-animal relationships - Moral and ethical aspects | |
Animal rights | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | Smulewicz-ZuckerGregory R. <1983-> |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Strangers to nature |
ISBN: | 1-280-77022-8 |
9786613680990 | |
0-7391-4549-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910452580103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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