Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism

Informationen zum Autor Gary Steiner is John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. He is the author of Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy and Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life! Moral Status! and Kinship. Klappentext In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism! Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self! agency! and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus! much of what is published under the rubric of postmodernist theory lacks a proper basis for a systematic engagement with ethics. Steiner demonstrates this through a provocative critique of postmodernist approaches to the moral status of animals! set against the background of a broader indictment of postmodernism's failure to establish clear principles for action. He revisits the ideas of Derrida! Foucault! Nietzsche! and Heidegger! together with recent work by their American interpreters! and shows that the basic terms of postmodern thought are incompatible with definitive claims about the moral status of animals--as well as humans. Steiner also identifies the failures of liberal humanist thought in regards to this same moral dilemma! and he encourages a rethinking of humanist ideas in a way that avoids the anthropocentric limitations of traditional humanist thought.Drawing on the achievements of the Stoics and Kant! he builds on his earlier ideas of cosmic holism and non-anthropocentric cosmopolitanism to arrive at a more concrete foundation for animal rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Use and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Life2. Postmodernism and Justice3. "Later here signifies never": Derrida on Animals4. Animal Rights and the Evasions of Postmodernism5. Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism6. Cosmopolitanism and VeganismBibliographyIndex ...

Product details

• Authors: Gary Steiner, Steiner Gary
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2013
• EAN: 9780231153430
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15343-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Anima; Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law; Critical Perspectives on Animals; Critical Perspectives on Anima
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; NATURE / Animal Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, Ethics and moral philosophy, Animals and society, Earth Sciences, Structuralism and Post-structuralism