Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction

by Dawne McCance

Overview

Comprehensive overview of key theoretical approaches and issues in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438445359
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Edition description:	Critical
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dawne McCance is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba. Her books include Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical and Medusa's Ear: University Foundings from Kant to Chora L, both also published by SUNY Press, and Derrida on Religion: Thinker of Differance.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Animal Liberation on the Factory Farm

3. Animal Rights in the Wild

4. Animal Experimentation: In the Lab and on the Farm

5. The Death of “The Animal”: What’s in a Word?

6. Open Cages: Animots and Zoos

7. Feminist Contributions to Critical Animal Studies

8. Killing and Eating Animals: Perspectives from World Religions

9. The Subject of Ethics: Cultural Studies, Art, Architecture, and Literature

10. Turning Points

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Editorial Reviews

"…with her clear prose and simultaneous theoretical breadth and depth, McCance provides an accessible introduction to key and emerging theoretical arguments brewing in CAS … McCance's timely book will be an excellent tool for drawing in new scholars and familiarizing them with the field. Her book reviews and encourages desperately needed ideas and interventions that will hopefully contribute to sparking a dramatic rethinking and reconfiguring of human-animal relations." — The Goose

"McCance's work is an insightful addition to the dialogue of animal ethics." — CHOICE

"Dawne McCance, educated first as a biologist and geneticist, and later as a philosopher, has produced an extraordinary book. It introduces us to the principal philosophical issues in the areas of animal rights, animal studies, ecology, and ethics in a lucidly argued way, with both breadth and depth. The major contributions of feminist thinkers, of religious traditions from all over the world, and of Continental European thinkers—above all, the remarkable work of Jacques Derrida—are presented in a clear and comprehensible way. The writing and thinking are always pellucid and dependably profound. No reader will ever forget the preface to the book, 'Chopped Liver.' And no reader who works through the book will fail to be grateful for this comprehensive and truly critical introduction to critical animal studies." — David Farrell Krell, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, DePaul University

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