Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues

Andrew Woodhall, Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade, Andrew Woodhall, Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319545486
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319545493
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

This book offers ethical and political approaches to issues that nonhuman animals face. The recent 'political turn' in interspecies ethics, from ethical to political approaches, has arisen due to the apparent lack of success of the nonhuman animal movement and dissatisfaction with traditional approaches. Current works largely present general positions rather than address specific issues and principally rely on mainstream approaches. This book offers alternative positions such as cosmopolitan, libertarian, and left humanist thought, as well as applying ethical and political thought to specific issues, such as experimentation, factory farming, nonhuman political agency, and intervention. Presenting work by theorists and activists, insights are offered from both ethics and politics that impact theory and practice and offer essential considerations for those engaging in interspecies ethics within the political turn era.

Table of contents

• Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Making Light of the Ethical? The Ethics and Politics of Animal Rights
• 3 Far-Persons
• 4 Evolution to Liberation: Political Reflections on Morality and Nonhumans
• 5 Robert Nozick on Nonhuman Animals: Rights, Value and the Meaning of Life
• 6 Reinventing Left Humanism: Towards an Interspecies Emancipatory Project
• 7 Justice for Animals in a Globalising World
• 8 Animal Rights and the Distorting Power of Anthropocentric Prejudice
• 9 Interspecies Encounters and the Political Turn: From Dialogues to Deliberation
• 10 Gandhian Satyagraha and Open Animal Rescue
• 11 Shame: From Defensive Fury to Epistemological Shifts and Political Change
• 12 Are We Smart Enough to Know When to Take the Political Turn for Animals?
• 13 Interspecies Atrocities and the Politics of Memory
• 14 Animal Research and the Political Theory of Animal Rights
• 15 Cross-Species Comparisons of Welfare
• 16 Population Dynamics Meets Animal Ethics: The Case for Aiding Animals in Nature
• 17 Afterword
• Index