Maneesha Deckha

Animals as Legal Beings

Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the ongoing quest to protect animals from exploitation, this book discusses "beingness," as an alternative to "personhood," as the more impactful and animal-centered legal status that recognizes and values animals for who they are.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781487525873
• ISBN-10: 1487525877
• Artikelnr.: 59078383

Autorenporträt

By Maneesha Deckha

Inhaltsangabe

Moving Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Legal Status for Animals
1. No Escape: Anti-Cruelty Law’s Property Foundations
2. What’s Wrong with Personhood?: The Humanizing Impact of Anthropos
3. Toward a Post-Anthropocentric Legal Ontology
4. Beingness: A New Legal Subjectivity for Animals
5. Liberal Humanism Repackaged?
6. Conclusion