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Book SynopsisStrangers to Nature brings together many of the leading scholars who are working to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics. This volume will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealing the breadth of theorizing about the human/non-human animal relationship that is currently taking place.
Trade ReviewA stimulating collection of essays that reexamine, refine, and in some cases refute major philosophical arguments concerning animal treatment, thereby advancing animal ethical theory on a number of fronts. -- Josephine Donovan, University of Maine, author of
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Evil, Affliction, and Redemptive Love, and Co-editor of
The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics and Animals and WomenA fine collection of essays representing a wide range of views on animal ethics. -- Gary L. Francione, Distinguished Professor of Law; Katzenbach Scholar of Law & Philosophy, Rutgers University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Incorporating New Ethical Traditions Chapter 1: Imagining a World without the Violation of Animals by Drucilla Cornell Chapter 2: Animal Rights and Kantian Ethics by Julian H. Franklin Chapter 3: A Place for Animals in the Kingdom of Ends by Heather M. Kendrick Chapter 4: Interspecies Cosmopolitanism: Animal Rights without Metaphysical Foundations by Eduardo Mendieta Chapter 5: C.S. Lewis’s Theology of Animals by Andrew Linzey Part II: Extending and Critiquing the Discourse Chapter 6: The Ruses of Reason: Strategies of Exclusion Paola Cavalieri Chapter 7: Ideology in Animal Rights Advocacy: Sound Ethics, Dubious Practices by Rod Preece Chapter 8: Animal Rights and Social Relations by Ted Benton Chapter 9: The Problem with Commodifying Animals by Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker Part III: Developing New Ethical Grounds Chapter 10: Why We Have Ethical Obligations to Animals: Animal Welfare and the Common Good by Michael J. Thompson Chapter 11: Relating to Animals in Space and Time: An Exercise in Moral Imagination by Michael Allen Fox Chapter 12: Navigating Difference (again): Animal Ethics and Entangled Empathy by Lori Gruen Chapter 13: Toward a Properly Post-Humanist Ethos of Somatic Sympathy by Ralph R. Acampora Chapter 14: Animal Ethics and Recollection by Bernard Rollin Appendix: Voices for Animals: A Fantasy on Animal Representation by Peter Sloterdijk (Translated by Lisa Marie Anderson) Index List of Contributors
