Ebook: The Death of the Animal: a Dialogue
Author: Cavalieri Paola
- Tags: Animal psychology, Animals (Philosophy), Intellect, Speciesism, Electronic books
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
Acknowledgments; Foreword By Peter Singer; The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue on Perfectionism; Roundtable I; Humanist and Posthumanist Antispeciesism -Cary Wolfe; No Escape -Harlan B. Miller; Toward an Agnostic Animal Ethics -Matthew Calarco; Comments on Paola Cavalieri, "A Dialogue on Perfectionism" -John M. Coetzee; II; Notes on Issues Raised by Matthew Calarco -John M. Coetzee; Pushing Things Forward -Paola Cavalieri; Distracting Difficulties -Harlan B. Miller; On Appetite, the Right to Life, and Rational Ethics -John M. Coetzee.;
While moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J.M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding of the nonhuman in such a way that the derogatory category of ""the animal"" becomes meaningless. In so doing, she presents a nonhierachical approach to ethics that better respects the value of the conscious self. Cavalieri opens with a dialogue between two imagined philosophers.
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