Animal Dignity (eBook, PDF)

Philosophical Reflections on Non-Human Existence
Redaktion: Challenger, Melanie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals? Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribute to this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging account of animal dignity.

With a foreword by world-leading primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, essays collected here make the case for applying the concept of dignity beyond its usual humanist framework and introduce readers to animal dignity in history, law, science, philosophy, and literature. United in recognizing the dignity of non-human animals, these essays suggest how we might ensure a flourishing environment in times of ecological destruction and climate breakdown. Historians, primatologists, philosophers, novelists and artists approach the concept of animal dignity creatively, offering interpretations that are academically rigorous, alongside ones that are personal and literary. This variety of engagement knits together a fruitful way forward for progressive relations between all species.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350331693
• Artikelnr.: 68497139

Autorenporträt

Melanie Challenger is a writer, researcher and broadcaster on environmental history and philosophy of science, Deputy Co-Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and a Vice President of the RSPCA, UK. Her books include How to Be Animal: What it Means to Be Human (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Contributors Foreword
Memories of Greybeard
Dame Jane Goodall Acknowledgements Introduction Prelude I: Frogs
Simon Rich (Independent Scholar
USA) Laughing with Dignity
Melanie Challenger (Nuffield Council on Bioethics and RSPCA
UK) Part I. Defining the Concept. What is Dignity? Prelude II: 33
000 Birds
Jonathan Safran Foer (Independent Scholar
USA) 1. A Place for Animals? Rethinking the history of human dignity
Remy Debes (University of Memphis
USA) 2. Philosophical Approaches to Dignity
and their Applicability to Non-human Animals
Suzanne Killmister (Monash University
Australia) Part II. Approaches to Dignity. What are the Grounds of Animal Dignity? Prelude III: Ways of Seeing an Octopus
Sy Montgomery (Independent Scholar
USA) 3. On Standing
Harriet Ritvo (MIT
USA) 4. Wild Dignity
Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University in Middletown
USA) 5. Dignity in Dogs
Alexandra Horowitz (Barnard College
USA) 6. The Heart of the Scorpion
Kathleen Dean Moore (Oregon State University
USA) 7. An Old Joy: Ways of Attending to Dignity
Deborah Slicer (University of Montana
USA) 8. Dignity in their World
Danielle Celermajer (University of Sydney
Australia) Part III. Forms of Dignity. Are There Separate Cultural Conceptions Of Animal Dignity? Prelude IV: Lead Me into Thy Nest
Nelson Bukamba (Gorilla Doctors
Uganda) 9. Killing Dogs in Zambia: Prospects for ubuntu
Julius Kapembwa (University of Zambia
Zambia) 10. Let all Beings Be happy: Dignity and Prana
the vital force in Indian thought
Meera Baindur (RV University
Bangalore
India) 11. Two-Eyed Seeing: Animal dignity through Indigenous and Western lenses
Cristina Eisenberg (Oregon State University
USA) and Michael Paul Nelson (Oregon State University
USA) 12. Dignity in Non-humans: A theological perspective
Michael Reiss (University College London
UK) Part IV. Dignity in Practice. What Work Can Animal Dignity Do? Prelude V: The Last Safe Habitat
Craig Santos Perez (University of Hawai?i at Manoa
USA) Losing 13. A Capabilities Approach to Dignity
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago
USA) 14. Beyond Animal Welfare
Eva Bernet Kempers (University of Antwerp
Belgium) 15. Animal Dignity as More-Than-Welfarism
Visa Kurki (University of Helsinki
Finland) 16. Dignity: A Concept for All Species
Lori Marino (The Kimmela Center for Scholarship-based Animal Advocacy
USA) 17. Four Legs Good
Three Legs Bad? An Aesthetics of Animal Dignity
Samantha Hurn (University of Exeter
UK) 18. Looking Up to Animals and Other Beings: What the fishes taught us
Becca Franks (New York University
USA)
Monica Gagliano (Southern Cross University
Australia)
Barbara Smuts (University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
USA)
and Christine Webb (Harvard University
USA) 19. Dignity
Indignity
and the Education of Biologists
David George Haskell (Sewanee: The University of the South
USA) Afterthoughts Prelude VI: Characteristics of Life
Camille Dungy (Colorado State University
USA) Ways Forward
Melanie Challenger (Nuffield Council on Bioethics and RSPCA
UK) Index