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Animals and the limits of postmodernism / Gary Steiner ; cover illustrations, Michael Sowa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steiner, Gary, 1956- author.
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on animals.
- Critical Perspectives on Animals : Theory, Culture and Law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals (Philosophy).
- Animal rights.
- Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Animal welfare.
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (454 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While postmodern approaches to politics and ethics have offered some intriguing and influential insights in philosophy and theory, Gary Steiner illuminates the fundamental inability of these approaches to arrive at viable ethical and political principles. Ethics require notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Therefore much of what is published under the rubric of theory lacks a proper basis for a systematic engagement with ethics.Steiner provocatively critiques postmodernist approaches to the moral status of animals against the background of a
- Contents:
- Cover; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Use and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Life; Chapter 2. Postmodernism and Justice; Chapter 3. "Later here signifies never": Derrida on Animals; Chapter 4. Animal Rights and the Evasions of Postmodernism; Chapter 5. Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 6. Cosmopolitanism and Veganism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-52729-2
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