The Death of the Animal
A Dialogue
Cavalieri opens with a dialogue between two imagined philosophers, laying out her challenge to moral perfectionism and tracing its influence on our attitudes toward the unworthy. She then follows with a roundtable multilogue which takes on the role of reason in ethics and the boundaries of moral status. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner for Literature and author of The Lives of Animals, emphasizes the animality of human beings; Miller, a prominent analytic philosopher at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, dismantles the rationalizations of human bias; Cary Wolfe, professor of English at Rice University, advocates an active exposure to other worlds and…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-231-14552-7
- EAN: 9780231145527
- Produktnummer: 4366210
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Masse: H21.2 cm x B14.7 cm x D1.9 cm 352 g
- Gewicht: 352
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Paola Cavalieri lives in Milan and is the editor of the international philosophy journal Etica & Animali. She is the author of The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights and, with Peter Singer, edited the award-winning book, The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity.
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