Power, Knowledge, Animals

Informationen zum Autor LISA JOHNSON is an Associate Professor at the University of Puget Sound, USA, where she teaches law, ethics, environmental law, and animals and the law. Klappentext This work contributes to the development of a theoretical context of the politics of truth about animals. By applying and extending Foucault's theory of power, this work uncovers dominant and subjugated discourses about animals and describes power-knowledge associated with statements about animals that are understood to convey true things. Zusammenfassung This work contributes to the development of a theoretical context of the politics of truth about animals. By applying and extending Foucault's theory of power! this work uncovers dominant and subjugated discourses about animals and describes power-knowledge associated with statements about animals that are understood to convey true things. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Preface Introduction The Essential Political Problem Contemporary Discourses about Animals Insurrection On Blindness to Being Parallelisms (Or, the Changeable Nature of Knowledge) References Index

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Series Preface Introduction The Essential Political Problem Contemporary Discourses about Animals Insurrection On Blindness to Being Parallelisms (Or, the Changeable Nature of Knowledge) References Index

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• Authors: L Johnson, L. Johnson, Lisa Johnson, Johnson Lisa
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2012
• EAN: 9780230282575
• ISBN: 978-0-230-28257-5
• No. of pages: 181
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series; Palgrave MacMillan Animal Ethi; The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series; Palgrave MacMillan Animal Ethi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; B, Sociology, Ethics, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Sociology, general, Social Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Moral Philosophy