{"product_id":"states-of-nature-9781433115677","title":"States of Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStates of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the removal of the animal and its moral import from accounts of the human in political thought. By engaging some of the most foundational Western political texts (from Plato's \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e to Locke's \u003ci\u003eTwo Treatises\u003c\/i\u003e to Rousseau's \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e), this work shows how the human and animal are intertwined in the creation of government, and in particular, in social contract theory. These political transitions are connected to transformations in the view of human nature that lead to the suppression of the animality of human life, as seen in Descartes' account of the metaphysics of man. \u003ci\u003eStates of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e concludes by arguing for a new, vital, and relational approach toward animality as a foundation for our animal and environmental obligations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«Christopher La Barbera’s book is an accessible, witty, and important analysis of the ways in which the human-animal divide in the history of political philosophy is the result of an exclusive concept of citizenship. This work adds to the growing literature on animal ethics that breaks out of the liberal assumptions of mainstream analytic approaches to these questions.» (Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee)","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039539462487,"sku":"9781433115677","price":54.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433115677.jpg?v=1750944010","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/states-of-nature-9781433115677","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}