Strangers to Nature Animal Lives and Human Ethics

by Smulewicz-Zucker, Gregory R.; Cornell, Drucilla; Franklin, Julian H.; Kendrick, Heather M.; Mendieta, Eduardo; Linzey, Andrew; Cavalieri, Paola; Preece, Rod; Benton, Ted; Thompson, Michael J.; Fox, Michael Allen; Gruen, Lori; Acampora, Ralph R.; Rollin, B

• ISBN13: 9780739145470
• ISBN10: 0739145479
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-22
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly interrogate our conduct in the world without a deeper understanding of how our actions affect animals. It is crucial that the human-animal relationship become more central to ethical inquiry. This volume brings together many of the leading scholars who work to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics. The contributors examine the radical developments that change how we think about the status of non-human animals in our society and our moral obligations. Strangers to Nature will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealing the breadth of theorizing about current human/non-human animal relationships.

Author Biography

Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker is the managing editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Incorporating New Ethical Traditions
Imagining a World without the Violation of Animals	p. 11
Animal Rights and Kantian Ethics	p. 21
A Place for Animals in the Kingdom of Ends	p. 35
Interspecies Cosmopolitanism: Animal Rights without Metaphysical Foundations	p. 67
C. S. Lewis's Theology of Animals	p. 89
Extending and Critiquing the Discourse
The Ruses of Reason: Strategies of Exclusion	p. 111
Ideology in Animal Rights Advocacy: Sound Ethics, Dubious Practices	p. 131
Animal Rights and Social Relations	p. 141
The Problem with Commodifying Animals	p. 157
Developing New Ethical Grounds
Why We Have Ethical Obligations to Animals: Animal Welfare and the Common Good	p. 177
Relating to Animals in Space and Time: An Exercise in Moral Imagination	p. 201
Navigating Difference (again): Animal Ethics and Entangled Empathy	p. 213
Toward a Properly Post-Humanist Ethos of Somatic Sympathy	p. 235
Animal Ethics and Recollection	p. 249
Appendix: Voices for Animals: A Fantasy on Animal Representation	p. 263
Index	p. 271
List of Contributors	p. 277
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