Being Animal Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics

Name: Being Animal Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
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ISBN: 9780231162272

ISBN-10: 0231162278

ISBN-13: 9780231162272

Edition: 2013

Authors: Anna Peterson

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If nature is what lies beyond human society, then animals must be a part of it. 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 the wilderness. They are also real creatures and individual subjects with whom we have diverse and complex relationshipsScholars, however, tend to treat animals and the environment as distinct, mutually exclusive objects of interest and concern. Conducting the first systematic examination of the place of animals in scholarly and popular thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Animals and Nature



Animals in Environmental Perspective



Animal Ethics



Wild Animals



Domesticated Animals



The Debate Between Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy



Between Animals and Nature: Finding Common Ground



Being Animal


Notes


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