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Species matters : humane advocacy and cultural theory /
The question of the animal has preoccupied an increasing number of humanities, science, and social science scholars in recent years, and important work continues to expand the burgeoning field of animal studies. However, a key question still needs to be explored: Why has the academy struggled to lin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: Animality and Advocacy; 1. Species Matters, Humane Advocacy: In the Promising Grip of Earthly Oxymorons; 2. Humane Advocacy and the Humanities: The Very Idea; 3. Consequences of Humanism, or, Advocating What?; 4. Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness; 5. What Came Before The Sexual Politics of Meat: The Activist Roots of a Critical Theory; 6. Compassion: Human and Animal; 7. Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness; Addendum to Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness (2010).
- 8. Avoid Being Abstract When Making Policies on the Welfare of AnimalsContributors; Index.