Alison Suen

Speaking Animal

Ethics, Language and the Human-Animal Divide

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Engaging with the work of Freud, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Derrida, this book reconceptualises the language divide between humans and animals within the context of animal ethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781783485116
• ISBN-10: 1783485116
• Artikelnr.: 42811953

Autorenporträt

Alison Suen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iona College, USA. She is the author of The Speaking Animal (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Giving Animals a Hearing: Rights Discourse and Animal Representation in Animal Ethics
2. From Animal Father to Animal Mother: A Freudian Account of Animal Care Ethics
3. The Poverty Of Kinship: Heidegger on The Human-Animal Linguistic Divide
4. Animal Identity: The Problem of Difference in the Animal Rights Discourse
5. Racialising Cruelty: Dehumanisation in the Name of Animal Advocacy
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index