Interspecies ethics

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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 moral theory. Situating biosocial ethics firmly within coevolutionary processes, this volume has profound implications for work in social and political thought, contemporary pragmatism, Africana thought…

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Full title :Interspecies ethics / Cynthia Willett.

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Publication Date:©2014

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Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 220 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0231538146, 9780231538145
DOI:10.7312/will16776
oclc:ocn891697123
LC Classification:B105.A55
Dewey Decimal:179/.3

Introduction: new ideals of belonging and Africana origins of interspecies living -- Can the animal subaltern laugh?: neoliberal inversions, cross-species solidarities, and other challenges to human exceptionalism / with Julie Willett -- Paleolithic ethics: ethics' evolution from play, the interspecies community selection hypothesis, and anarchic communitarianism -- Affect attunement: discourse ethics across species -- Water and wing give wonder: meditations on cosmopolitan peace -- Reflections: a model and a vision of ethical life -- Coda, or, The song of the dog-man: mourning in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.

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Ethics ethics (philosophy) Human-animal relationships -- Moral and… Human-animal relationships -- Philosophy Morale PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy Relations homme-animal -- Aspect moral Relations homme-animal -- Philosophie Speciesism Spécisme