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Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body
Ralph Acampora
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Description for Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body
Paperback. Examines the practical applications of the somatic ethos in contexts such as laboratory experimentation and zoological exhibition, and challenges practitioners to go beyond recent reforms and look to a future beyond exploitation or total noninterference--a posthumanist culture that advocates caring in a participatory approach. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 231 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Most approaches to animal ethics ground the moral standing of nonhumans in some appeal to their capacities for intelligent autonomy or mental sentience. Corporal Compassion emphasizes the phenomenal and somatic commonality of living beings; a philosophy of body that seeks to displace any notion of anthropomorphic empathy in viewing the moral experiences of nonhuman living beings. Ralph R. Acampora employs phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism and deconstruction to connect and contest analytic treatments of animal rights and liberation theory. In doing so, he focuses on issues of being and value, and posits a felt nexus of bodily being, termed symphysis, to devise ... Read more
Most approaches to animal ethics ground the moral standing of nonhumans in some appeal to their capacities for intelligent autonomy or mental sentience. Corporal Compassion emphasizes the phenomenal and somatic commonality of living beings; a philosophy of body that seeks to displace any notion of anthropomorphic empathy in viewing the moral experiences of nonhuman living beings. Ralph R. Acampora employs phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism and deconstruction to connect and contest analytic treatments of animal rights and liberation theory. In doing so, he focuses on issues of being and value, and posits a felt nexus of bodily being, termed symphysis, to devise ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822963233
SKU
V9780822963233
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About Ralph Acampora
Ralph R. Acampora is associate professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. He is co-editor of A Nietzchean Bestiary and a member of the editorial board for Anthrozoos.
Reviews for Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body
“In this intellectually adventurous and scrupulously argued book, Ralph Acampora takes it as his aim to vitalize the Anglo-American debate on the ethics of transhuman contacts with a bracing injection of modern European thought.” - J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature