Interspecies Ethics

Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species.

List of contents

Introduction: New Ideals of Belonging and Africana Origins of Interspecies Living1. Can the Animal Subaltern Laugh? Neoliberal Inversions2. Paleolithic Ethics: Ethics' Evolution from Play3. Affect Attunement: Discourse Ethics Across Species4. Water and Wing Give Wonder: Meditations on Cosmopolitan Peace5. Reflections: A Model and a Vision of Ethical LifeCoda; orAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

About the author

Cynthia Willett is a professor of philosophy at Emory University. Her books include Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Freedom and Democracy; The Soul of Justice: Racial Hubris and Social Bonds; and Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities. She has also edited the anthology Theorizing Multiculturalism and is a coeditor for the Symposia on Race, Gender, and Philosophy.

Summary

Interspecies Ethics explores animals’ vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Willett, Cynthia (Emory University) Willett, Willett Cynthia
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2014
• EAN: 9780231167772
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16777-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law; Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; NATURE / Animal Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Ethics and moral philosophy, Earth Sciences, Structuralism and Post-structuralism