{"product_id":"animal-lives-and-why-they-matter-9781032330013","title":"Animal Lives and Why They Matter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book engages with the changing ways in which we, as a society and culture, look upon and interact with animals, stressing how much animals differ among themselves. An invitation to appreciate the peculiar role of animals in telling important if uncomfortable truths about who we are and where we are heading  namely, towards a world so much poorer in cultural, moral, and biological diversity  as a result of the ongoing decimation of so many other species. Drawing on a variety of thought ranging from that of Midgley, Plumwood, and Murdoch to Levinas, Derrida, and Habermas, from ecophilosophers to conservation biologists, \u003cem\u003eAnimal Lives and Why They Matter\u003c\/em\u003e asks how we have come to this, and what an alternative, less destructive approach to our now precarious coexistence with animals might look like. Spanning the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, this enquiry into various cross-species relationships and encounters will appeal to scholars and studen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Animals make us human 2. Call and response, or eating and being eaten 3. A dog named Bobby: animals as agents and addressees 4. Encounters as experiences of conversion 5. Responsibility and grievability in the face of extinction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018981474647,"sku":"9781032330013","price":118.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032330013.jpg?v=1750778902","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/animal-lives-and-why-they-matter-9781032330013","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}