Interspecies Ethics by Cynthia Willett (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Interspecies Ethics by Cynthia Willett Interspecies Ethics explores animals vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Interspecies Ethics explores animals vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism that drives modern moral theory. Situating biosocial ethics firmly within coevolutionary processes, this volume has profound implications for work in social and political thought, contemporary pragmatism, Africana thought, and continental philosophy.Interspecies Ethics develops a communitarian model for multispecies ethics, rebalancing the overemphasis on competition in the original Darwinian paradigm by drawing out and stressing the cooperationist aspects of evolutionary theory through mutual aid. The books ethical vision offers an alternative to utilitarian, deontological, and virtue ethics, building its argument through rich anecdotes and clear explanations of recent scientific discoveries regarding animals and their agency. Geared toward a general as well as a philosophical audience, the text illuminates a variety of theories and contrasting approaches, tracing the contours of a postmoral ethics. Author Biography Cynthia Willett is a professor of philosophy at Emory University. Her books include Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Freedom and Democracy; The Soul of Justice: Racial Hubris and Social Bonds; and Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities. She has also edited the anthology Theorizing Multiculturalism and is a coeditor for the Symposia on Race, Gender, and Philosophy. Table of Contents Introduction: New Ideals of Belonging and Africana Origins of Interspecies Living 1. Can the Animal Subaltern Laugh? Neoliberal Inversions, Cross-Species Solidarities, and Other Challenges to Human Exceptionalism, with Julie Willett 2. Paleolithic Ethics: Ethics Evolution from Play, the Interspecies Community Selection Hypothesis, and Anarchic Communitarianism 3. Affect Attunement: Discourse Ethics Across Species 4. Water and Wing Give Wonder: Meditations on Cosmopolitan Peace 5. Reflections: A Model and a Vision of Ethical Life Coda; or, The Song of the Dog-Man: Mourning in J. M. Coetzees Disgrace Acknowledgments Notes Index Review Interspecies Ethics is philosophys St. Crispins speech for creating a new compact with our animal kin. Cynthia Willetts book is a must read for anyone and everyone committed to putting the humanity back into human living and restoring the planet. -- G.A. Bradshaw, author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity Distancing herself from the traditional anthropocentrism regarding other animals and the ethics that we apply, Cynthia Willett integrates recent scientific discoveries with a careful reading of philosophy and literary analysis. The result is a rich, enlightening book about the relation between us and our evolutionary fellow travelers. -- Frans de Waal, author of The Bonobo and the Atheist If you are one of a vanishing minority of people who think that we humans are the only animals with highly evolved cognitive and emotional capacities and agency, Cynthia Willetts new book will surely make you reconsider this false view of who we are and who they (other animals) really are. The border between "us" and "them" already is blurry, and as we accumulate scientific data on the fascinating and surprising lives of other animals it becomes even more blurred. Surely, humans are exceptional beings, but so too are other animals. Arguing for human exceptionalism at the expense of other animals no longer works. We all need someone we can lean on and with whom we can engage, and this book and much research show that we lose when other animals lose, and similarly, we flourish when they flourish and when they are treated with respect and dignity. Peaceful coexistence is win-win ethic for all. -- Marc Bekoff, editor of Ignoring nature no more: The case for compassionate conservation and author of Rewilding our hearts: Building pathways of compassion and coexistence Filled with insight and humor, fascinating animal studies and profound philosophical speculations on the meaning of life and our place in it, Willetts Interspecies Ethics is a beautifully crafted testament to the need for interspecies ethics by considering what she calls "communitarian cohabitation." Bringing together classical philosophy, contemporary Continental Philosophy, literature, psychology, zoology, and animal studies, Willett weaves a captivating tale of human-animal relationships that takes us well beyond human domination and towards interspecies community. This may be as important a paradigm shift in animal studies as Peter Singers animal liberation or Jacques Derridas deconstruction of the category "Animal." -- Kelly Oliver, author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach us to be Human, and Earth and World In Interspecies Ethics, Cynthia Willett gives us a book from which the reader derives pleasure as well as lessons. There is deftness in the prose, a breadth of vision in the references, and a genuine feeling to the book, a feeling we could call "humaneness" if the restrictiveness of that phrase werent one of the targets of the book. "Interspecies ethics" is an affect-based ethics, focusing on attachments and disruptions within and across species lines. Outflanking common continental tropes, Willetts interspecies ethics is neither a "response ethics" nor a "becoming animal," but a living with animals. In the course of the book we find a movement, "from affect attunement in horizontal relationships, [which] culminates in an enlightened experience of cosmic peace." But the author wont rest without turning to "predation and death." Hence the Codas discussion of Coetzees Disgrace. But even then there is a turn not to the simple positive but to regeneration, the intertwining not just of human and non-human but of death and life as the tragic violence of the Coda ends with a "musical vision of mourning that regenerates the social basis of interspecies life." -- John Protevi, Louisiana State University Willett draws on an incredible range of sources and disciplines for this project, demonstrating in the process how work in animal studies requires redrawing disciplinary boundaries in significant ways. The Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory A wonderful book that insists upon our return to the paleozoic ground of ethics and opens so many doors for further thinking about how we animals must live together as the planet evolves in strange and horrifying ways. -- Louise Westling Environmental Values Review Quote Willett draws on an incredible range of sources and disciplines for this project, demonstrating in the process how work in animal studies requires redrawing disciplinary boundaries in significant ways. Excerpt from Book Read an excerpt from the final chapter, "Coda; or the Song of the Dog-Man": Details ISBN0231167776 Author Cynthia Willett Publisher Columbia University Press Year 2014 ISBN-10 0231167776 ISBN-13 9780231167772 Format Paperback Pages 232 Imprint Columbia University Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 179.3 Short Title INTERSPECIES ETHICS Language English Media Book Residence US Birth 1956 Affiliation Emory University Publication Date 2014-08-05 Translated from English UK Release Date 2014-08-05 AU Release Date 2014-08-05 NZ Release Date 2014-08-05 US Release Date 2014-08-05 Series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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