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Corporal Compassion : Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body.

"Corporal Compassion examines the practical applications of the somatic ethos in contexts such as laboratory experimentation and zoological exhibition, and challenges practitioners to go beyond recent reforms and look to a future beyond exploitation or total noninterference--a posthumanist cult...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Acampora, Ralph R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : Somaesthetics and animal ethics
  • 1. Interspecies ethics and phenomenology of body : precursors and pathways
  • 2. Flesh-and-blood being-in-a-world : toward a transpecific ontology of somatic society
  • 3. Appreciation of animal nature under the aspect of bodiment
  • 4. Ethos and Leib : "symphysics" of transpecific morality
  • 5. Body bioethics in realms of the carnal and the carceral
  • 6. Contexts and promise of corporal compassion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.