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Strangers to nature : animal lives and human ethics / edited by Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Logos (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
- Logos: perspectives on modern society and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Animal welfare.
- Human-animal relationships--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Animal rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-30238-4
- 1-280-77022-8
- 9786613680990
- 0-7391-4549-5
- OCLC:
- 854520017
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