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Law and the question of the animal : a critical jurisprudence /
This book addresses the problem of 'animal life' in terms that go beyond the usual extension of liberal rights to animals. The discourse of animal rights is one that increasingly occupies the political, ethical and intellectual terrain of modern society. But, although the question of the s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Law, justice and ecology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Law and the Question of the Animal: A critical jurisprudence; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Series editor's preface; Chapter 1 Law's animal; Chapter 2 The animal protagonist: Representing 'the animal' in law and cinema; Chapter 3 Witness demeanour as real evidence: Mechanistic philosophy of bodies without minds; Chapter 4 Inventing animals; Chapter 5 Chimpanzees in court: What difference does it make?; Chapter 6 The jurisprudential meaning of the animal: A critique of the subject of rights in the laws of scienter and negligence.
- Chapter 7 Dressing the sow and the legal subjectivation of the non-human animalChapter 8 Whipping to win: Measured violence, delegated sovereignty and the privatised domination of non-human life; Chapter 9 Law in the marketplace; Chapter 10 The normativity of an animal atmosphere; Chapter 11 Species, scarcity and the secular state; References; Index.