Animal Lives and Why They Matter

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Animals make us human 2. Call and response, or eating and being eaten 3. A dog named Bobby: animals as agents and addressees 4. Encounters as experiences of conversion 5. Responsibility and grievability in the face of extinction