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Informationen zum Autor Paola Cavalieri lives in Milan and is the editor of the international philosophy journal Etica & Animali. She is the author of The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights and! with Peter Singer! edited the award-winning book! The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity. Klappentext Cavalieri opens with a dialogue between two imagined philosophers! laying out her challenge to moral perfectionism and tracing its influence on our attitudes toward the "unworthy." She then follows with a roundtable "multilogue" which takes on the role of reason in ethics and the boundaries of moral status. Coetzee! Nobel Prize winner for Literature and author of The Lives of Animals! emphasizes the animality of human beings; Miller! a prominent analytic philosopher at Virginia Polytechnic Institute! dismantles the rationalizations of human bias; Cary Wolfe! professor of English at Rice University! advocates an active exposure to other worlds and beings; and Matthew Calarco! author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida! extends ethical consideration to entities that traditionally have little or no moral status! such as plants and ecosystems. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsForeword! by Peter SingerThe Death of the Animal: A Dialogue on Perfectionism! by Paola CavalieriRoundtableIHumanist and Posthumanist Antispeciesism! by Cary WolfeNo Escape! by Harlan B. MillerToward an Agnostic Animal Ethics! by Matthew CalarcoComments on Paola Cavalieri! "A Dialogue on Perfectionism"! by John M. CoetzeeIINotes on Issues Raised by Matthew Calarco! by John M. CoetzeePushing Things Forward! by Paola CavalieriDistracting Difficulties! by Harlan B. MillerOn Appetite! the Right to Life! and Rational Ethics! by John M. Coetzee"On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings"! by Cary WolfeBetween Life and Rights! by Matthew CalarcoNotes
