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  • Thinking Through Animals

    Identity, Difference, Indistinction

    by Matthew Calarco ...
    The rapidly expanding field of critical animal studies now offers a myriad of theoretical and philosophical positions from which to choose. This timely book provides an overview and analysis of the most influential of these trends. Approachable and concise, it is intended for readers sympathetic to the project of changing our ways of thinking about and interacting with animals yet relatively new ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Three Ethologies

    A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships

    by Matthew Calarco ...
    A transformative vision for human-animal relations on personal, social, and environmental levels.The Three Ethologies offers a fresh, affirmative vision for rebuilding human-animal relations. Venturing beyond the usual scholarly and activist emphasis on restricting harm, Matthew Calarco develops a new philosophy for understanding animal behavior—a practice known as ethology—through three distinct ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boundaries of Human Nature

    The Philosophical Animal from Plato to Haraway

    by Matthew Calarco ...
    Are animals capable of wonder? Can they be said to possess language and reason? What can animals teach us about how to live well? How can they help us to see the limitations of human civilization? Is it possible to draw firm distinctions between humans and animals? And how might asking and answering questions like these lead us to rethink human-animal relations in an age of catastrophic ecological ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Boundaries of Human Nature

    The Philosophical Animal from Plato to Haraway

    by Matthew Calarco ...
    Are animals capable of wonder? Can they be said to possess language and reason? What can animals teach us about how to live well? How can they help us to see the limitations of human civilization? Is it possible to draw firm distinctions between humans and animals? And how might asking and answering questions like these lead us to rethink human-animal relations in an age of catastrophic ecological ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Zoographies

    The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida

    by Matthew Calarco ...
    Zoographies challenges the anthropocentrism of the Continental philosophical tradition and advances the position that, while some distinctions are valid, humans and animals are best viewed as part of an ontological whole. Matthew Calarco draws on ethological and evolutionary evidence and the work of Heidegger, who called for a radicalized responsibility toward all forms of life. He also turns to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Reflections on Roadkill between Mobility Studies and Animal Studies

    Altermobilities

    by Matthew Calarco ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life. Yet, consideration of the broader significance of the myriad social, ethical, and political issues related to roadkill has largely gone missing from mainstream scholarship and activism. This neglect persists even in fields such as mobility studies and animal studies that would otherwise seem to have a vested interest in the topic. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Animal Studies

    The Key Concepts

    by Matthew R. Calarco ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Prefaced with a brief introduction to the field of animal studies, the text explores the key influential terms, topics and debates which have had a major impact on the field, and that students are most likely to encounter in their animal studies classes.Animal Studies provides a guide to key concepts in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of animal studies, laid out in A-Z format. While Human ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Exploring Animal Encounters

    Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Dominik Ohrem, Matthew Calarco ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural, literary, and historical contexts. Exploring Animal Encounters encourages us to think about the richness and complexity of animal lives and human-animal relations, foregrounding the intricate roles nonhuman creatures play in the always already more-than-human sphere of ethics and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Messy Eating

    Conversations on Animals as Food

    by Samantha King, R. Scott Carey, Isabel Macquarrie, Victoria Niva Millious, Elaine M. Power, Neel Ahuja0, Billy-Ray Belcourt1, Matthew R. Calarco2, Lauren Corman3, Naisargi N. Dave4, Maneesha Deckha5, María Elena García6, Sharon P. Holland7, H. Peter Steeves8, Kelly Struthers Montford9, Kim TallBear0, Sunaura Taylor1, Harlan Weaver2, Kari Weil3, Cary Wolfe4 ...
    Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human–animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic work and their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection explores how authors working across ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Death of the Animal

    A Dialogue

    by Paola Cavalieri ...
    While moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding of the nonhuman in such a way that the derogatory category of "the animal" becomes meaningless. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Posthuman Knowledge

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years, propelled in part by rapid advances in our knowledge of living systems and of their genetic and algorithmic codes coupled with the global expansion of a knowledge-intensive ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Why Things Matter to People

    Social Science, Values and Ethical Life

    by Andrew Sayer ...
    Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that ... Read more

    $28.69 USD