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Élisabeth de Fontenay - Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights - 9780816676057 - V9780816676057
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Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights

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Description for Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights Paperback. Translator(s): Bishop, Will. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206.

A central thinker on the question of the animal in continental thought, Élisabeth de Fontenay moves in this volume from Jacques Derrida’s uneasily intimate writing on animals to a passionate frontal engagement with political and ethical theory as it has been applied to animals—along with a stinging critique of the work of Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri as well as with other “utilitarian” philosophers of animal–human relations.

Humans and animals are different from one another. To conflate them is to be intellectually sentimental. And yet, from our position of dominance, do we not owe them more than we often acknowledge? In ... Read more

Fontenay is at her most compelling in describing philosophy’s ongoing indifference to animal life—shading into savagery, underpinned by denial—and how attempts to exclude the animal from ethical systems have in fact demeaned humanity. But Fontenay’s essays carry more than philosophical significance. Without Offending Humans reveals a careful and emotionally sensitive thinker who explores the unfolding of humans’ assessments of their relationship to animals—and the consequences of these assessments for how we define ourselves.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
Posthumanities
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816676057
SKU
V9780816676057
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About Élisabeth de Fontenay
Born in 1934, Élisabeth de Fontenay was closely associated with the late Jacques Derrida and is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Sorbonne. She is the author of Le silence des bêtes: La philosophie à l’épreuve de l’animalité and Diderot: Reason and Resonance. Will Bishop received his doctorate in French literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives ... Read more

Reviews for Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights
"Without Offending Humans is an excellent, timely, well-argued book. Élisabeth de Fontenay is an original thinker, urging us to consider a rethought version of historical materialism and a utopic animalism." —Leonard Lawler, author of Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy

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