Gebundenes Buch

Asian Perspectives on Animal Ethics

Rethinking the Nonhuman

Herausgeber: Dalal, Neil; Taylor, Chloë

Beschreibung

This book makes a novel contribution to animal ethics in showing the range and richness of ideas offered to these fields by diverse Asian traditions. Using Asian perspectives to explore crucial ontological, ethical and political questions, contributors analyse humanism and post-humanism in Asian and comparative traditions before focusing on the special ethical relations between humans and particular species of animals.

Autor

Neil Dalal is Assistant Professor of South Asian Philosophy and Religious Thought in the Philosophy Department and Religious Studies Program at the University of Alberta, Canada. He holds a PhD from the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Chloë Taylor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Tomlinson postdoctoral fellow in Philosophy at McGill University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415729864
• ISBN-10: 0415729866
• Artikelnr.: 39595046