Without Offending Humans : A Critique of Animal Rights Volume 24

Élisabeth de Fontenay

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Editore: University Of Minnesota Press Aug 2012, 2012

0816676054 / 9780816676057

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Neuware - A central thinker on the question of the animal in continental thought, Élisabeth de Fontenay moves in this volume from Jacques Derrida’s uneasily intimate writing on animals to a passionate frontal engagement with political and ethical theory as it has been applied to animals-along with a stinging critique of the work of Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri as well as with other "utilitarian" philosophers of animal–human relations.Humans and animals are different from one another. To conflate them is to be intellectually sentimental. And yet, from our position of dominance, do we not owe them more than we often acknowledge In the searching first chapter on Derrida, she sets out "three levels of deconstruction" that are "testimony to the radicalization and shift of that philosopher’s argument: a strategy through the animal, exposition to an animal or to this animal, and compassion toward animals." For Fontenay, Derrida’s writing is particularly far-reaching when it comes to thinking about animals, and she suggests many other possible philosophical resources including Adorno, Leibniz, and Merleau-Ponty.Fontenay is at her most compelling in describing philosophy’s ongoing indifference to animal life-shading into savagery, underpinned by denial-and how attempts to exclude the animal from ethical systems have in fact demeaned humanity. But Fontenay’s essays carry more than philosophical significance. Without Offending Humans reveals a careful and emotionally sensitive thinker who explores the unfolding of humans’ assessments of their relationship to animals-and the consequences of these assessments for how we define ourselves.…

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Titolo
Without Offending Humans : A Critique of Animal Rights Volume 24
Autore
Élisabeth de Fontenay
Editore
University Of Minnesota Press Aug 2012
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0816676054
ISBN 13
9780816676057
Peso dell'articolo
205 grammi
Dimensioni
209x131x15 mm

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