Sentientist Politics - A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice

There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Equality, Rights, and Sentientist Politics


• 3: Sentientist Democracy


• 4: Sentientist Cosmopolitan Democracy


• 5: Sovereignty for Animals?


• 6: Diversity and Toleration in a Sentientist Political Order


• 7: Securing Sentientist Politics


• 8: Conclusion

About the author

Alasdair Cochrane is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Sheffield. His main research interest is in 'animal politics' and his publications include An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (Palgrave, 2010) and Animal Rights without Liberation (Columbia, 2012). His other research interests engage with a broad range of topical ethical issues, most notably human rights, environmental ethics, bioethics, food ethics, and the ethics of imprisonment.

Summary

There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like.

Foreword

Winner of the 2019 BISA Susan Strange Book Prize

Product details

• Authors: Alasdair Cochrane, Alasdair (Senior Lecturer in Political T Cochrane
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780198789802
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878980-2
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education