ISBN:
9780754698630
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Considering Animals
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Considering animals
DDC:
304.27
Keywords:
Human-animal relationships
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Human-animal relationships Philosophy
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Human-animal relationships
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Human-animal relationships Philosophy
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Human-animal relationships ; Philosophy
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Human-animal relationships
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Electronic books
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Human-animal relationships
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Human-animal relationships
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Philosophy
Abstract:
Considering Animals draws on the expertise of scholars trained in the biological sciences, humanities, and social sciences to investigate the complex and contradictory relationships humans have with nonhuman animals. Taking their cue from the specific 'animal moments' that punctuate these interactions, the essays engage with contemporary issues and debates central to human-animal studies: the representation of animals, the practical and ethical issues inseparable from human interactions with other species, and, perhaps most challengingly, the compelling evidence that animals are themselves considering beings. Case studies focus on issues such as animal emotion and human 'sentimentality'; the representation of animals in contemporary art and in recent films such as March of the Penguins, Happy Feet, and Grizzly Man; animals' experiences in catastrophic events such as Hurricane Katrina and the SARS outbreak; and the danger of overvaluing the role humans play in the earth's ecosystems. From Marc Bekoff's moving preface through to the last essay, Considering Animals foregrounds the frequent, sometimes uncanny, exchanges with other species that disturb our self-contained existences and bring into focus our troubled relationships with them. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, this collection demonstrates that, in the face of species extinction and environmental destruction, the roles and fates of animals are too important to be left to any one academic discipline.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1 Image -- 1 Contemporary Art and Animal Rights -- 2 Marching on Thin Ice: The Politics of Penguin Films -- 3 The Traumatic Effort to Understand: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man -- 4 Naming and the Unspeakable: Representations of Animal Deaths in Some Recent South African Print Media -- 5 Possum Magic, Possum Menace: Wildlife Control and the Demonisation of Cuteness -- Part 2 Ethics -- 6 Pleasure's Moral Worth -- 7 The Nature of the Experimental Animal: Evolution, Vivisection, and the Victorian Environment -- 8 "Room on the Ark?": the Symbolic Nature of U.S. Pet Evacuation Statutes for Nonhuman Animals -- 9 Making Animals Matter: Why the Art World Needs to Rethink the Representation of Animals -- Part 3 Agency -- 10 The Speech of Dumb Beasts -- 11 Extinction, Representation, Agency: The Case of the Dodo -- 12 Cetaceans and Sentiment -- 13 Zones of Contagion: The Singapore Body Politic and the Body of the Street-Cat -- 14 When is Nature Not? -- Bibliography -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1 Image; 1 Contemporary Art and Animal Rights; 2 Marching on Thin Ice: The Politics of Penguin Films; 4 Naming and the Unspeakable: Representations of Animal Deaths in Some Recent South African Print Media; 5 Possum Magic, Possum Menace: Wildlife Control and the Demonisation of Cuteness; PART 2 Ethics; 6 Pleasure's Moral Worth; 7 The Nature of the Experimental Animal: Evolution, Vivisection, and the Victorian Environment
Description / Table of Contents:
8 "Room on the Ark?": The Symbolic Nature of U.S. Pet Evacuation Statutes for Nonhuman Animals9 Making Animals Matter: Why the Art World Needs to Rethink the Representation of Animals; PART 3 Agency; 10 The Speech of Dumb Beasts; 11 Extinction, Representation, Agency: The Case of the Dodo; 12 Cetaceans and Sentiment; 13 Zones of Contagion: The Singapore Body Politic and the Body of the Street-Cat; 14 When Is Nature Not?; Bibliography; Index;
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