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26%OFFAnna L. Peterson - Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics - 9780231162272 - V9780231162272
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Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics

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Description for Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics Paperback. Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.
For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting the first examination of animals' place in popular and scholarly thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects who are simultaneously parts of both nature and human society. Peterson explores the tensions between humans and animals, nature and culture, animals and nature, and domesticity and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231162272
SKU
V9780231162272
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About Anna L. Peterson
Anna L. Peterson teaches at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on environmental and social ethics and the relations between animal ethics and animal advocacy. Her books include Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World and Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire.

Reviews for Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Being Animal is a wonderful and most welcomed book in which noted author Anna Peterson convincingly argues that, "The separation between nature and animals is both strange and destructive." Animals, domesticated and wild, are not 'Others', and human constructed boundaries that invariably trump our interests over theirs put us on a very slippery slope that leads us away from whom ... Read more

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