Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (20)

UGent (19)

Odisee (18)

Thomas More Kempen (18)

Thomas More Mechelen (18)

UCLL (18)

VIVES (18)

ULiège (11)

ULB (8)

LUCA School of Arts (3)

More...

Resource type

book (21)


Language

English (20)

French (1)


Year
From To Submit

2019 (21)

Listing 1 - 10 of 21 << page
of 3
>>
Sort by

Book
Duty and the beast : should we eat meat in the name of animal rights?
Author:
ISBN: 1108665861 1316672697 1107160073 1108605915 1316612880 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The moral status of animals is a subject of controversy both within and beyond academic philosophy, especially regarding the question of whether and when it is ethical to eat meat. A commitment to animal rights and related notions of animal protection is often thought to entail a plant-based diet, but recent philosophical work challenges this view by arguing that, even if animals warrant a high degree of moral standing, we are permitted - or even obliged - to eat meat. Andy Lamey provides critical analysis of past and present dialogues surrounding animal rights, discussing topics including plant agriculture, animal cognition, and in vitro meat. He documents the trend toward a new kind of omnivorism that justifies meat-eating within a framework of animal protection, and evaluates for the first time which forms of this new omnivorism can be ethically justified, providing crucial guidance for philosophers as well as researchers in culture and agriculture.


Book
Writing Animals : Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Author:
ISBN: 3030038807 3030038793 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, Writing Animals offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies.


Book
Animals in the Sociologies of Westermarck and Durkheim
Author:
ISBN: 3030268632 3030268624 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book explores why animals, at some point, disappeared from the realm and scope of sociology. The role of sociology in the construction of a science of the ‘human’ has been substantial, building representations of the human sphere of life as unique. Within the sociological tradition however, animals have often been invisible, even non-existent. Through in-depth comparisons of the texts of prominent early sociologists Emile Durkheim and Edward Westermarck, Tuomivaara shows that despite this exclusion, representations of animals and human-animal relations were far more varied in early works than in the later sociological cannon. Addressing a significant gap in the interdisciplinary field of animal studies, Tuomivaara presents a close reading of the historical treatment of animals in the works of Durkheim and Westermarck to determine how the human-animal boundary was established in sociological theory. The diverse forms in which animals and ‘the animal’ appear in the works of early classical sociology are charted and explored, alongside the sociological themes that bring animals into these texts. Situated in contemporary theory, from critical animal studies to posthumanism, this important book lays the groundwork for a disciplinary shift away from this sharp human-animal dualism.


Book
The political lives of Victorian animals : liberal creatures in literature and culture
Author:
ISBN: 1108619428 1108632092 1108492967 1108751458 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

During the Victorian era, animals were increasingly viewed not as property or utility, but as thinking, feeling subjects worthy of inclusion within a political community. This book re-examines the nineteenth-century British animal welfare movement and animal characters in the Victorian novel in light of liberal thought, and argues that liberalism was a decisive factor in determining the cultural, ideological, and material makeup of animal-human relationships. While the animal welfare movement often represented animals as desiring submission to the human, animal characters in the Victorian novel critiqued the liberal norms that led to the oppression of both animals and humans. Through readings of animal rights legislation, animal welfare texts, and writings by Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner, Anna Feuerstein outlines the remarkably powerful political role that animals played in the Victorian novel, as they offer ways to move beyond the exclusionary and contradictory strategies of liberal thought.


Book
Alternatives to Animal Testing : Proceedings of Asian Congress 2016
Authors: --- --- ---
ISBN: 9811324476 9811324468 Year: 2019 Publisher: Singapore Springer Nature

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This open access book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use of animals in research and describes a variety of practical applications of the three key guiding principles for the more ethical use of animals in experiments – replacement, reduction, and refinement, collectively known as the 3Rs. Important examples from across the world of implementation of the 3Rs in the testing of cosmetics, chemicals, pesticides, and biologics, including vaccines, are described, with additional information on relevant regulations. The coverage also encompasses emerging approaches to alternative tests and the 3Rs. The book is based on the most informative contributions delivered at the Asian Congress 2016 on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences. It will be of value for those working in R&D, for graduate students, and for educators in various fields, including the pharmaceutical and cosmetic sciences, pharmacology, toxicology, and animal welfare. The free, open access distribution of Alternatives to Animal Testing is enabled by the Creative Commons Attribution license in International version 4: CC BY 4.0.


Book
Mobilizing Traditions in the First Wave of the British Animal Defense Movement
Author:
ISBN: 1137526513 1137526505 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book explores the British animal defense movement’s mobilization of the cultural and intellectual traditions of its time- from Christianity and literature, to natural history, evolutionism and political radicalism- in its struggle for the cause of animals in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter examines the process whereby the animal protection movement interpreted and drew upon varied intellectual, moral and cultural resources in order to achieve its manifold objectives, participate in the ongoing re-creation of the current traditions of thought, and re-shape human-animal relations in wider society. Placing at its center of analysis the movement’s mediating power in relation to its surrounding traditions, Li’s original perspective uncovers the oft-ignored cultural work of the movement whilst restoring its agency in explaining social change. Looking forward, it points at the same time to the potential of all traditions, through ongoing mobilization, to effect change in the human-animal relations of the future.


Book
Animals In Brazil : Economic, Legal and Ethical Perspectives
Author:
ISBN: 3030233766 3030233774 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book presents a collection of essays exploring the legal, economic, socio-environmental, and ethical dimensions of human-animal interaction in Brazil. As one of the primary global producers and exporters of beef, with a level of biodiversity in its rain forests found nowhere else under threat, the importance of Brazil for animal life is unquestionable. Shedding light on the profound transformations in the consumption and production of animal-sourced foods that have taken place over the last five decades, the authors examine the consequences of this phenomenon for the lives of animals, the health of the population, and the environment. The book also offers an analysis of the animal welfare and animal protection legislation in Brazil, before presenting a number of notable cases involving animal advocacy and activism in recent years. An important and timely collection, this book concludes with an exploration of the historical, socio-cultural and economic aspects that influence the Brazilian ethos regarding the morality of the treatment of animals. .


Book
Animal Neopragmatism : From Welfare to Rights
Author:
ISBN: 3030259803 303025979X Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre of philosophical analysis. Following a method traceable to Dewey, Wittgenstein and Rorty, Hadley argues that many enduring puzzles about human interactions with animals can be ‘dissolved’ by understanding why people use terms like dignity, respect, naturalness, and inherent value. Hadley shifts the debate about animal welfare and rights from its current focus upon contentious claims about value and animal mindedness, to the vocabulary people use to express their concern for the suffering and lives of animals. With its emphasis on public concern for animals, animal neopragmatism is a uniquely progressive and democratic theory of animal ethics.


Book
Animals and Human Society in Asia : Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives
Authors: --- --- --- ---
ISBN: 3030243621 303024363X Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history, religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more." —Vincent Goossaert, professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, this book examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish — real and metaphorical– have played in Asian history, society, and culture. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, the volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.


Book
Les liens entre éthique et droit : l'exemple de la question animale
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9782343164496 2343164495 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Le 10 novembre 2016, s'est tenu à Limoges un colloque sur les relations entretenues entre le droit et l'éthique s'appuyant sur le ressort inédit de la question animale.00A priori bien distincts, le droit renvoyant à la régulation des comportements par la loi et l'éthique s'intéressant à la distinction entre le bien et le mal, à ce qu'il convient de faire indépendamment ou au-delà des obligations strictement légales, ces deux domaines s'interpénètrent et se nourrissent, particulièrement concernant la question animale.00La réflexion éthique concernant notre relation à l'animal s'est amplifiée ces cinquante dernières années et a conduit à une prise en compte des intérêts et de la qualité d'êtres vivants des animaux. Le droit s'est fait l'écho de cette considération en redéfinissant l'animal au sein du code civil comme un ± être vivant et sensible ?. À cela, il faut ajouter la création d'infractions pénales réprimant les atteintes à l'animal et la multiplication de règles garantissant un niveau minimum de bien-être aux animaux.00Pour autant, cette dynamique n'est pas si évidente à analyser car il n'existe non pas une mais différentes théories éthiques relatives à l'animal. Il convient dès lors de s'interroger : quelles théories peuvent inspirer le droit ? Quelle traduction est-il possible de leur donner ?

Listing 1 - 10 of 21 << page
of 3
>>
Sort by