{"product_id":"animal-dignity-9781350331679","title":"Animal Dignity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals?\u003c\/b\u003e Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribute to this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging account of animal dignity.   With a foreword by world-leading primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, essays collected here make the case for applying the concept of dignity beyond its usual humanist framework and introduce readers to animal dignity in history, law, science, philosophy, and literature. United in recognizing the dignity of non-human animals, these essays suggest how we might ensure a flourishing environment in times of ecological destruction and climate breakdown. Historians, primatologists, philosophers, novelists and artists approach the concept of animal dignity creatively, offering interpretations that are academically rigorous, alongside ones that are personal and literary. This variety of engagement knits together a fruitful way forward for progressive relations between all species.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow best to think about and do justice to the dignity of animals? As Challenger’s superb collection demonstrates, this task involves not simply extending traditional notions of dignity to animals but also considering how the lives and deaths of animals themselves might challenge us to conceive of dignity in new and unanticipated ways. * Matthew Calarco, Professor of Philosophy, California State University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eMelanie Challenger has earned a place as an essential, foundational thinker on topics of animal capacity for experiencing life and the world, and in calling us to consider our appropriate response to the beings cohabiting this planet. In this consideration of dignity and its ramifications and imperatives, Challenger has gathered the best, brightest, highest, and deepest other thinkers and convened them for us between the covers of this daring and pathfinding book. * Carl Safina, Ecologist and Author of Alfie and Me (2023), USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnimal Dignity\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold, modern effort to ascribe to non-human beings a concept that heretofore has eluded them. These forceful essays also awakened me to the idea when we deny other animals their dignity, we corrupt our own. * Jonathan Balcombe, Ethologist and Author of What a Fish Knows (2016) and Super Fly (2020), Canada *\u003cbr\u003eDignity is such an obvious concept to apply to animals, yet for a long time human dignity was defined by stressing how unlike other species we are. Our changing relation with nature is reflected in these thoughtful essays, which instil respect for the intelligence and emotions of other life forms. * Frans de Waal, Author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (2016), USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures List of Contributors Foreword, Memories of Greybeard, \u003ci\u003eDame Jane Goodall\u003c\/i\u003e Acknowledgements Introduction  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrelude I: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFrogs, \u003ci\u003eSimon Rich (Independent Scholar, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Laughing with Dignity, \u003ci\u003eMelanie Challenger (Nuffield Council on Bioethics and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRSPCA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I. Defining the Concept. \u003ci\u003eWhat is Dignity?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrelude II: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e33,000 Birds, \u003ci\u003eJonathan Safran Foer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Independent Scholar, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 1. A Place for Animals? Rethinking the history of human dignity, Re\u003ci\u003emy Debes (University of Memphis, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Philosophical Approaches to Dignity, and their Applicability to Non-human Animals, \u003ci\u003eSuzanne Killmister (Monash University, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II. Approaches to Dignity. \u003ci\u003eWhat are the Grounds of Animal Dignity?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrelude III: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWays of Seeing an Octopus, \u003ci\u003eSy Montgomery (Independent Scholar, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. On Standing, \u003ci\u003eHarriet Ritvo (MIT, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Wild Dignity, \u003ci\u003eLori Gruen (Wesleyan University in Middletown, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Dignity in Dogs, \u003ci\u003eAlexandra Horowitz \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Barnard College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   6. The Heart of the Scorpion, \u003ci\u003eKathleen Dean Moore (Oregon State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. An Old Joy: Ways of Attending to Dignity, \u003ci\u003eDeborah Slicer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(University of Montana, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Dignity in their World, \u003ci\u003eDanielle Celermajer (University of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart III. Forms of Dignity. \u003ci\u003eAre There Separate Cultural Conceptions Of Animal Dignity?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrelude IV: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eLead Me into Thy Nest, \u003ci\u003eNelson Bukamba (Gorilla Doctors, Uganda)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Killing Dogs in Zambia: Prospects for \u003ci\u003eubuntu\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJulius Kapembwa (University of Zambia, Zambia)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Let all Beings Be happy: Dignity and \u003ci\u003ePrana\u003c\/i\u003e, the vital force in Indian thought, \u003ci\u003eMeera Baindur (RV University, Bangalore, India)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Two-Eyed Seeing: Animal dignity through Indigenous and Western lenses, \u003ci\u003eCristina Eisenberg (Oregon State University, USA) and Michael Paul Nelson (Oregon State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Dignity in Non-humans: A theological perspective, \u003ci\u003eMichael Reiss \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(University College London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart IV. Dignity in Practice. \u003ci\u003eWhat Work Can Animal Dignity Do?\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrelude V:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e The Last Safe Habitat, \u003ci\u003eCraig Santos Perez (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Hawai?i at Manoa, USA) \u003c\/i\u003eLosing  13.  A Capabilities Approach to Dignity, \u003ci\u003eMartha Nussbaum\u003c\/i\u003e   , \u003ci\u003eMartha Nussbaum (University of Chicago, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 14. Beyond Animal Welfare, \u003ci\u003eEva Bernet Kempers (University of Antwerp, Belgium)\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Animal Dignity as More-Than-Welfarism, \u003ci\u003eVisa Kurki (University of Helsinki, Finland)\u003c\/i\u003e 16. Dignity: A Concept for All Species, \u003ci\u003eLori Marino (The Kimmela Center for Scholarship-based Animal Advocacy, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 17.  Four Legs Good, Three Legs Bad? An Aesthetics of Animal Dignity, \u003ci\u003eSamantha Hurn (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Exeter, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 18. Looking Up to Animals and Other Beings: What the fishes taught us, \u003ci\u003eBecca  Franks (New York University, USA), Monica Gagliano (Southern Cross  University, Australia), Barbara Smuts (University of Michigan, Ann  Arbor, USA), and Christine Webb (Harvard University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 19. Dignity, Indignity, and the Education of Biologists, \u003ci\u003eDavid George Haskell (Sewanee: The University of the South, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAfterthoughts\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrelude VI:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Characteristics of Life, \u003ci\u003eCamille Dungy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Colorado State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Ways Forward, \u003ci\u003eMelanie Challenger \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Nuffield Council on Bioethics and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRSPCA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738620047703,"sku":"9781350331679","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/animal-dignity-9781350331679","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}