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  • What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals

    The Historical Pretensions of Reason and the Ideal of Felt Kinship

    by Gary Steiner ...
    Series series Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
    This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition’s assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It makes a case for the full and direct moral status of nonhuman animals.The book provides the basis for a radical critique of the entire trajectory of animal studies over the past fifteen years. The key idea explored is that of ‘felt kinship’—a sense of shared fate with and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Animals as Persons

    Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

    by Gary Francione ...
    A prominent and respected philosopher of animal rights law and ethical theory, Gary L. Francione is known for his criticism of animal welfare laws and regulations, his abolitionist theory of animal rights, and his promotion of veganism and nonviolence as the baseline principles of the abolitionist movement. In this collection, Francione advances the most radical theory of animal rights to date. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Eat This Book

    A Carnivore's Manifesto

    by Dominique Lestel ...
    Translated by Gary Steiner ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Animals and the Moral Community

    Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship

    by Gary Steiner ...
    Gary Steiner argues that ethologists and philosophers in the analytic and continental traditions have largely failed to advance an adequate explanation of animal behavior. Critically engaging the positions of Marc Hauser, Daniel Dennett, Donald Davidson, John Searle, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, among others, Steiner shows how the Western philosophical tradition has forced animals ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Commonplace Commitments

    Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell

    by Peter S. Fosl, Michael J. McGandy, Mark D. Moorman, Kenneth L. Anderson, Scott D. Churchill, Vincent M. Colapietro, Joseph P. Fell, Richard Fleming0, Jeff Malpas1, Dennis Schmidt2, Gary Steiner3, Katie Terezakis4, Jeff Turner5, David Weinberger6 ...
    Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet but radical reform in the philosophical tradition that speaks to perennial dilemmas of thought and ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism

    by Gary Steiner ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under the rubric of postmodernist theory lacks a proper basis for a systematic engagement with ethics.Steiner demonstrates this ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Animal Rights, Human Wrongs

    An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

    by Tom Regan ...
    What gives an animal 'rights?' What makes product testing on animals wrong? In Animal Rights, Human Wrongs prominent activist and philosopher Tom Regan skillfully puts forth the argument for animal rights through the exploration of two questions central to moral theory: What makes an act right? What makes an act wrong? Taking into consideration moral theories such as contractarianism, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Animal Rights Without Liberation

    Applied Ethics and Human Obligations

    by Alasdair Cochrane ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other proponents of animal rights, Cochrane claims that because most sentient animals are not autonomous ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Why "Happy Meat" Is Always Wrong

    by Magnus Vinding ...
    The "happy meat" position does not challenge our large-scale mistreatment of non-human beings, but rather serves to support it. That is among the core claims of this essay, which argues that the rejection of the "happy meat" position is critical if we are to end the extreme horrors that humanity inflicts upon other animals."Magnus Vinding argues powerfully against eating 'happy meat'." — Peter ... Read more

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  • Kant: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Invitation to Sociology

    A Humanistic Perspective

    by Peter L. Berger ...
    The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readersAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a clear understanding of sociology in his straightforward introduction to the field, much loved by students, professors, and general readers. Berger aligns sociology in the humanist tradition—revealing its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Ten Philosophical Mistakes

    by Mortimer J. Adler ...
    An illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time).Ten Philosophical Mistakes examines ten errors in modern thought and shows how they have led to serious consequences in our everyday lives. It teaches how they came about, how to avoid them, and how to counter their negative effects. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD