Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights (Posthumanities) - Hardcover

Fontenay, Élisabeth De

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ISBN 10: 0816676046 ISBN 13: 9780816676040

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2012

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"Without Offending Humans is an excellent, timely, well-argued book. Elisabeth de Fontenay is an original thinker, urging us to consider a rethought version of historical materialism and a utopic animalism." -Leonard Lawler, author of Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy

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A central thinker on the question of the animal in continental thought, \u00c9lisabeth de Fontenay moves in this volume from Jacques Derrida\u2019s uneasily intimate writing on animals to a passionate frontal engagement with political and ethical theory as it has been applied to animals-along with a stinging critique of the work of Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri as well as with other \u201cutilitarian\u201d philosophers of animal-human relations.Humans and animals are different from one another. To conflate them is to be intellectually sentimental. And yet, from our position of dominance, do we not owe them more than we often acknowledge? In the searching first chapter on Derrida, she sets out \u201cthree levels of deconstruction\u201d that are \u201ctestimony to the radicalization and shift of that philosopher\u2019s argument: a strategy through the animal, exposition to an animal or to this animal, and compassion toward animals.\u201d For Fontenay, Derrida\u2019s writing is particularly far-reaching when it comes to thinking about animals, and she suggests many other possible philosophical resources including Adorno, Leibniz, and Merleau-Ponty.Fontenay is at her most compelling in describing philosophy\u2019s ongoing indifference to animal life-shading into savagery, underpinned by denial-and how attempts to exclude the animal from ethical systems have in fact demeaned humanity. But Fontenay\u2019s essays carry more than philosophical significance. Without Offending Humans reveals a careful and emotionally sensitive thinker who explores the unfolding of humans\u2019 assessments of their relationship to animals-and the consequences of these assessments for how we define ourselves.

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• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0816676046
• ISBN 13: 9780816676040
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168