The Animal Invitation: Science, Ethics, Religion and Law in a More-than-Human World

This book gathers perspectives on how nonhuman neighbors not only invite our curiosity, but also enrich our deepest awarenesses, commanding attention even as they challenge our scientific, ethical, religious and law-based abilities and reflections. Nonhuman animals thereby lure us into more-than-human realms, intimating a far richer world than that which we have purported to construct by elevating humans alone through less-than-generous dismissals of these inevitable neighbors on this life-...