The war against animals

The war against animals

by Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph

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Are non-human animals our friends or enemies? In this provocative book, Dinesh Wadiwel argues that our mainstay relationships with billions of animals are essentially hostile. This book asks us to interrogate this sustained violence across its intersubjective, institutional and epistemic dimensions. Drawing from Foucault, Spivak and Derrida, this book argues that our sovereign claim of superiority over other animals is founded on nothing else but violence. Through innovative readings of Locke a…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The war against animals / by Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel ; with a foreword by Matthew Calarco.

Summary

Are non-human animals our friends or enemies? In this provocative book, Dinesh Wadiwel argues that our mainstay relationships with billions of animals are essentially hostile. This book asks us to interrogate this sustained violence across its intersubjective, institutional and epistemic dimensions. Drawing from Foucault, Spivak and Derrida, this book argues that our sovereign claim of superiority over other animals is founded on nothing else but violence. Through innovative readings of Locke and Marx, Dinesh Wadiwel argues that property in animals represents a bio-political conquest that aims to secure animals as the "spoils of war." The goal for pro-animal advocacy must be to challenge this violent sovereignty and recognize animal resistance through forms of counter-conduct and truce.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Brill Rodopi
  • Place of Publication:Leiden
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

  • Description:xi, 302 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789004300415, 9004300414
  • oclc:ocn910826885
  • LC Classification:QL85
  • Dewey Decimal:179/.3

Subjects

Animal rights animal welfare Animaux -- Droits Human-animal relationships -- Moral and… Relations homme-animal -- Aspect moral Speciesism Spécisme

Writers

Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph Calarco, Matthew

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