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Interspecies ethics / Cynthia Willett.

Willett, Cynthia, 1956- (author.).

Summary:

Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism that drives modern moral theory. Situating biosocial ethics firmly within coevolutionary processes, this volume has profound implications for work in social and political thought, contemporary pragmatism, Africana thought, and continental philosophy. Interspecies Ethics develops a communitarian model for multispecies et.

Record details

ISBN: 0231538146
ISBN: 9780231538145
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages)
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.17 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-215) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: new ideals of belonging and Africana origins of interspecies living -- Can the animal subaltern laugh?: neoliberal inversions, cross-species solidarities, and other challenges to human exceptionalism / with Julie Willett -- Paleolithic ethics: ethics' evolution from play, the interspecies community selection hypothesis, and anarchic communitarianism -- Affect attunement: discourse ethics across species -- Water and wing give wonder: meditations on cosmopolitan peace -- Reflections: a model and a vision of ethical life -- Coda, or, The song of the dog-man: mourning in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted by subscription.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Language Note:	In English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.