Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law – serie
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26 produkter
Flight Ways
Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
Häftad, 2016
218 kr
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A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways …
The Animal Rights Debate
Abolition or Regulation?
Av Gary Francione, Robert Garner
Häftad, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
277 kr
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Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for using nonhumans and argues that because animals …
Animal Oppression and Human Violence
Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict
Inbunden, 2013
2141 kr
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Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the development of human society. But by comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert reaches …
Animal Oppression and Human Violence
Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict
Häftad, 2013
302 kr
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Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the development of human society. But by comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert reaches …
Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
Av Gary Steiner
Inbunden, 2013
1272 kr
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In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under the rubric of …
Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
Av Gary Steiner
Häftad, 2013
311 kr
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In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under the rubric of …
Animal Rights Without Liberation
Applied Ethics and Human Obligations
Häftad, 2012
302 kr
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Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other …
Animalia Americana
Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
Inbunden, 2013
2737 kr
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Colleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrating on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson, Boggs argues that animals are critical to the …
Animalia Americana
Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
Häftad, 2013
719 kr
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Colleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrating on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson, Boggs argues that animals are critical to the …
Experiencing Animal Minds
An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters
Av Julie Smith, Robert Mitchell
Häftad, 2012
344 kr
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In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them. The collection features chapters by scholars working in psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, literary …
Being Animal
Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Inbunden, 2013
1019 kr
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For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. …
Being Animal
Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Häftad, 2013
260 kr
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For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. …
Flight Ways
Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
Inbunden, 2014
850 kr
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A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways …
Interspecies Ethics
Inbunden, 2014
2073 kr
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Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism that drives modern …
Interspecies Ethics
Häftad, 2014
277 kr
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Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism that drives modern …
Eat This Book
A Carnivore's Manifesto
Inbunden, 2016
682 kr
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If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat …
Eat This Book
A Carnivore's Manifesto
Häftad, 2016
176 kr
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If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat …
Beating Hearts
Abortion and Animal Rights
Av Sherry F Colb, Michael C Dorf
Inbunden, 2016
319 kr
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How can someone who condemns hunting, animal farming, and animal experimentation also favor legal abortion, which is the deliberate destruction of a human fetus? The authors of Beating Hearts aim to reconcile this apparent conflict and examine the surprisingly similar strategic and tactical …
The Wake of Crows
Living and Dying in Shared Worlds
Inbunden, 2019
302 kr
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Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs and farms. Across these diverse landscapes, many species of crow are doing well: their intelligent and adaptive ways of life have allowed them to …
Why Veganism Matters
The Moral Value of Animals
Inbunden, 2021
682 kr
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Most people care about animals, but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not believe that they have a moral obligation to become vegan.Gary L. Francione—the leading and most provocative scholar of animal rights theory and …
Why Veganism Matters
The Moral Value of Animals
Häftad, 2021
175 kr
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Most people care about animals, but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not believe that they have a moral obligation to become vegan.Gary L. Francione—the leading and most provocative scholar of animal rights theory and …
Dogs Save
Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture
Inbunden, 2026
1019 kr
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Stories about people and dogs saving one another are everywhere in US culture—on TV, in Hollywood movies, on social media, and even on bumper stickers. Yet these seemingly heartwarming stories of mutual rescue revolve around redemption through suffering, a narrative profoundly interwoven with …
Dogs Save
Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture
Häftad, 2026
260 kr
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Stories about people and dogs saving one another are everywhere in US culture—on TV, in Hollywood movies, on social media, and even on bumper stickers. Yet these seemingly heartwarming stories of mutual rescue revolve around redemption through suffering, a narrative profoundly interwoven with …
The Animal Rights Debate
Abolition or Regulation?
Av Gary Francione, Robert Garner
Inbunden, 2010
849 kr
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Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for using nonhumans and argues that because animals …
Animal Rights Without Liberation
Applied Ethics and Human Obligations
Inbunden, 2012
934 kr
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Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other …
Experiencing Animal Minds
An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters
Av Julie Smith, Robert Mitchell
Inbunden, 2012
982 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them. The collection features chapters by scholars working in psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, literary …
