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 …
"In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under …
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 …
A comprehensive examination of views of animals in the history of Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century, with the willingness to conceive of animal experience in terms of human mental capacities, such as consciousness, self-awareness, intention, delibe…
[This book] is the ... examination of views on animals in the history of Western philosophy, from pre-Socratics to the postmoderns. As [the author] points out, anthropocentrism has been the historically dominant view, based in part on a theocentric view which places the moral st…
