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| Title: | Animal Subjects
: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World |
| Series: | (Cultural Studies Series, Volume 8) |
| Author: | Jodey Castricano (ed) |
| ISBN: | 0889205124 : 9780889205123 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 312 |
| Weight: | .496 Kg. |
| Published: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press - June 2008 |
| List Price: | 22.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Animal rights: Cultural studies: Ethics & moral philosophy |
Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the discipline has lagged behind on questions of the animal, including those that address animal suffering in factory farming, product testing and laboratory experimentation, and in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. The contributors to "Animal Subjects" are scholars and writers whose work, from diverse perspectives, calls into question the boundaries that divide humans from animals, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between non-human animals and ourselves. This collection, the first of its kind to feature the work of Canadian scholars and writers in this emergent field, aims to include the non-human animal question as part of the ethical purview of Cultural Studies and to explore the question in interdisciplinary terms.
Introduction: Animal Subjects in a Posthuman World; Chicken; Selfish Genes, Sociobiology and Animal Respect; Anatomy as Speech Act: Vesalius, Descartes, Rembrandt or, The Question of "the animal" in the Early Modem Anatomy Lesson; A Missed Opportunity: Humanism, Anti-humanism and the Animal Question; Thinking Other-Wise: Cognitive Science, Deconstruction and the (Non)Speaking (Non)Human Animal Subject; Animals in Moral Space; Electric Sheep and the New Argument from Nature; Monsters: The Case of Marineland; "I sympathise in their pains and pleasures": Women and Animals in Mary Wollstonecraft; Animals as Persons; Power and Irony: One Tortured Cat and Many Twisted Angles to Our Moral Schizophrenia About Animals; Blame and Shame? How Can We Reduce Unproductive Animal Experimentation?; On Animal Immortality: An Argument for the Possibility of Animal Immortality in Light of the History of Philosophy; Index.
