Animal Lives and Why They Matter

Arne Johan Vetlesen (University of Oslo, Norway)

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Routledge
23 October 2023

Ethics & moral philosophy; Sociology; Zoology & animal sciences

Series: Multispecies Encounters

This book engages with the changing ways in which we, as a society and culture, look upon and interact with animals, stressing how much animals differ among themselves. An invitation to appreciate the peculiar role of animals in telling important if uncomfortable truths about who we are and where we are heading – namely, towards a world so much poorer in cultural, moral, and biological diversity – as a result of the ongoing decimation of so many other species. Drawing on a variety of thought ranging from that of Midgley, Plumwood, and Murdoch to Levinas, Derrida, and Habermas, from ecophilosophers to conservation biologists, Animal Lives and Why They Matter asks how we have come to this, and what an alternative, less destructive approach to our now precarious coexistence with animals might look like. Spanning the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, this enquiry into various cross-species relationships and encounters will appeal to scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences with interests in philosophy, ethics, human-animal interaction, and environmental thought.

By: Arne Johan Vetlesen (University of Oslo Norway)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032330020
ISBN 10: 1032330023
Series: Multispecies Encounters
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 23 October 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Arne Johan Vetlesen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of A Philosophy of Pain; Evil and Human Agency: Understanding Collective Evildoing; Perception, Empathy, and Judgment; The Denial of Nature: Environmental Philosophy in the Era of Global Capitalism, and Cosmologies of the Anthropocene: Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism.