Animals and Nature: Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities - Hardcover

Preece, Rod

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774807245 ISBN 13: 9780774807241

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Western conceptions of objectivity and individuality have resulted in a readier appreciation of the worth of the animals and nature than has been recognized. This provocative book takes issue with the popular view that the Western cultural tradition, in contrast to Eastern and Aboriginal traditions, has encouraged attitudes of domination and exploitation towards nature, particularly animals. Preece argues that the Western tradition has much to commend it, and that descriptions of Aboriginal and Oriental orientations have often been misleadingly rosy, simplified and codified according to current fashionable concepts. Animals and Nature is the result of six years’ intensive study into comparative religion, literature, philosophy, anthropology, mythology and animal welfare science.

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Rod Preece teaches in the Department of Political Science at Wilfried Laurier University. He is the author of Animal Welfare, Human Values and Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution (UBC Press, 2005).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774807245
• ISBN 13: 9780774807241
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 305
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