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Anthrozoology : Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene / / by Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison



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Autore: Tobias Michael Charles Visualizza persona
Titolo: Anthrozoology : Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene / / by Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXII, 338 p. 135 illus., 131 illus. in color.)
Disciplina: 500
Soggetto topico: Nature
Environment
Life sciences
Conservation biology
Ecology 
Semiotics
Environmental sciences—Philosophy
Philosophy of nature
Popular Science in Nature and Environment
Popular Life Sciences
Conservation Biology/Ecology
Environmental Philosophy
Philosophy of Nature
Persona (resp. second.): MorrisonJane Gray
Nota di contenuto: Preface -- The Making of the Anthropocene -- Our Conquest of Co-Evolution? -- The Metaphysics of Extinction -- The Conative Spectrum of Other Species -- Arcadian Connections -- The “Other Minds” Challenge.-A Prolegomena of Human Conscience -- Experiential, Empirical and Disturbing Anthrozoologies -- Epiphanies of the Biosemiosphere -- Evolutionary Biographies and the Enigma of the “Other” -- A North American Family – The Ecologies of Translation -- Coda.
Sommario/riassunto: This groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists ventures into a new frontier of applied ethical anthrozoological studies. Through lean and elegant text, readers will learn that human interconnections with other species and ecosystems are severely endangered precisely because we lack - by our evolutionary self-confidence - the very coherence that is everywhere around us abundantly demonstrated. What our species has deemed to be superior is, according to Tobias and Morrison, the cumulative result of a tragically tenuous argument predicated on the brink of our species’ self-destruction, giving rise to a most unique proposition: We either recognize the miracle of other sentient intelligence, sophistication, and genius, or risk enshrining the shortest lived epitaph of any known vertebrate in earth’s 4.1 billion years of life. Tobias and Morrison draw on 45 years of research in fields ranging from ecological anthropology, animal protection and comparative ethics to literature and spirituality - and beyond. They deploy research in animal and plant behavior, biocultural heritage contexts from every continent and they bring to bear a deeply metaphysical array of perspectives that set this book apart from any other. The book departs from most work in such fields as animal rights, ecological aesthetics, comparative ethology or traditional animal and plant behaviorist work, and yet it speaks to readers with an interest in those fields. A deeply provocative book of philosophical premises and hypotheses from two of the world’s most influential ecological philosophers, this text is likely to stir uneasiness and debate for many decades to come.
Titolo autorizzato: Anthrozoology  Visualizza cluster
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910156310403321
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