Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sanbonmatsu, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or "left" tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of "animal rights," the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a political question of the first order. The contributions highlight connections between our everyday treatment of animals and other forms of social power, mass violence, and domination, from capitalism and patriarchy to genocide, fascism, and ecocide. Contributors include well-known writers in the field as well as scholars in other areas writing on animals for the first time. Among other things, the authors apply Freud's theory of repression to our relationship to the animal, debunk the "Locavore" movement, expose the sexism of the animal defense movement, and point the way toward a new transformative politics that would encompass the human and animal alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442205826
• Artikelnr.: 38306641

Autorenporträt

John Sanbonmatsu is associate professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of The Postmodern Prince.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Commodity Fetishism and Structural Violence
Chapter 1: Procrustean Solutions to Animal Identity and Welfare Problems
Karen Davis
Chapter 2: Road Kill: Commodity Fetishism and Structural Violence
Dennis Soron
Chapter 3: Corporate Power, Ecological Crisis, and Animal Rights
Carl Boggs
Part II. Animals, Marxism, and the Frankfurt School
Chapter 4: Humanism = Speciesism?: Marx on Humans and Animals
Ted Benton
Chapter 5: Reflections on the Prospects for a Non-Speciesist Marxism
Renzo Llorente
Chapter 6: Thinking With: Animals in Schopenhauer, Horkheimer, and Adorno
Christina Gerhardt
Chapter 7: Animal is to Kantianism as Jew Is to Fascism: Adorno's Bestiary
Eduardo Mendieta
Part III. Speciesism and Ideologies of Domination
Chapter 8: Dialectic of Anthropocentrism
Aaron Bell
Chapter 9: Animal Repression: Speciesism as Pathology
Zipporah Weisberg
Chapter 10: Neuroscience (a Poem)
Susan Benston
Chapter 11: Everyday Rituals of the Master Race: Fascism,