Interspecies Ethics.
Title:
Interspecies Ethics.
Author:
Willett, Cynthia.
ISBN:
9780231538145
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (166 pages)
Series:
Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
Contents:
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: New Ideals of Belonging and Africana Origins of Interspecies Living -- 1. Can The Animal Subaltern Laugh?: Neoliberal Inversions, Cross-Species Solidarities, and Other Challenges to Human Exceptionalism -- 2. Paleolithic Ethics: Ethics' Evolution from Play, the Interspecies Community Selection Hypothesis, and Anarchic Communitarianism -- 3. Affect Attunement: Discourse Ethics Across Species -- 4. Water And Wing Give Wonder: Meditations on Cosmopolitan Peace -- 5. Reflections: A Model and a Vision of Ethical Life -- Coda -- or, the Song of the Dog-Man: Mourning in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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