Animals and the limits of postmodernism
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 crit…
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- Full title :Animals and the limits of postmodernism / Gary Steiner.
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.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 292 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780231527293, 0231527292
- oclc:ocn846496708
- LC Classification:B105.A55
- Dewey Decimal:179/.3
Table of Contents
The use and disadvantages of Nietzsche for life -- Postmodernism and justice -- "Later here signifies never": Derrida on animals -- Animal rights and the evasions of postmodernism -- Toward a nonanthropocentric cosmopolitanism -- Cosmopolitanism and veganism.
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