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Wild Souls - What We Owe Animals in a Changing World (Paperback): Emma Marris Wild Souls - What We Owe Animals in a Changing World (Paperback)
Emma Marris
R547 R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Save R75 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Animal Ethics in the Wild - Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (Hardcover): Catia Faria Animal Ethics in the Wild - Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (Hardcover)
Catia Faria
R2,632 R2,223 Discovery Miles 22 230 Save R409 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Animals, like humans, suffer and die from natural causes. This is particularly true of animals living in the wild, given their high exposure to, and low capacity to cope with, harmful natural processes. Most wild animals likely have short lives, full of suffering, usually ending in terrible deaths. This book argues that on the assumption that we have reasons to assist others in need, we should intervene in nature to prevent or reduce the harms wild animals suffer, provided that it is feasible and that the expected result is positive overall. It is of the utmost importance that academics from different disciplines as well as animal advocates begin to confront this issue. The more people are concerned with wild animal suffering, the more probable it is that safe and effective solutions to the plight of wild animals will be implemented in the future.

Justice for Animals - Our Collective Responsibility (Hardcover): Martha C. Nussbaum Justice for Animals - Our Collective Responsibility (Hardcover)
Martha C. Nussbaum
R740 R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Save R110 (15%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum. Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every day. The world needs an ethical awakening, a consciousness-raising movement of international proportions. In Justice for Animals, one of the world's most influential philosophers and humanists Martha C. Nussbaum provides a revolutionary approach to animal rights, ethics, and law. From dolphins to crows, elephants to octopuses, Nussbaum examines the entire animal kingdom, showcasing the lives of animals with wonder, awe, and compassion to understand how we can create a world in which human beings are truly friends of animals, not exploiters or users. All animals should have a shot at flourishing in their own way. Humans have a collective duty to face and solve animal harm. An urgent call to action and a manual for change, Nussbaum's groundbreaking theory directs politics and law to help us meet our ethical responsibilities as no book has done before.

Varieties of Empathy - Moral Psychology and Animal Ethics (Hardcover): Elisa Aaltola Varieties of Empathy - Moral Psychology and Animal Ethics (Hardcover)
Elisa Aaltola
R3,347 Discovery Miles 33 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics, with the suggestion that empathy enhances our moral ability and agency. Yet, its precise meaning is often left unexplored, together with the various obstacles and challenges met by an empathy-based ethic, such as those concerning the ways in which empathy is prone to bias and may also facilitate manipulation of others. These oversights render the contemporary discussion on empathy and animal ethics vulnerable to both conceptual confusion and moral simplicity. The book aims to tackle these problems by clarifying the different and even contradictory ways in which "empathy" can be defined, and by exploring the at times surprising implications the various definitions have from the viewpoint of moral agency. Its main question is: What types of empathy hinder moral ability, and what types enable us to become more morally capable in our dealings with the nonhuman world? During the contemporary era, when valuable forms of empathy are in decline, and the more hazardous, self-regarding and biased varieties of utilising empathy in the increase, this question is perhaps more important than ever.

Animal Rights - A Historical Anthology (Paperback): Andrew Linzey, Paul Barry Clarke Animal Rights - A Historical Anthology (Paperback)
Andrew Linzey, Paul Barry Clarke
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Animal rights sounds like a modern idea, but in fact -- for over three millennia -- philosophers, theologians, and political theorists have grappled with the question of our obligations toward animals. This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. "Animal Rights" reveals the ways in which a variety of thinkers have addressed such issues as our ethical responsibilities for the welfare of animals, whether animals have rights, and what it means to be human.

The preface by Andrew Linzey dispels many of the misconceptions about the animal rights movement. In light of the growing interest in animal rights, this volume is an indispensable resource for scholars and activists alike.

"Animal Rights" includes writings from Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Kant, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, Nietzsche, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and Peter Singer.

The Zoo and Screen Media - Images of Exhibition and Encounter (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Michael Lawrence, Karen Lury The Zoo and Screen Media - Images of Exhibition and Encounter (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Michael Lawrence, Karen Lury
R3,352 Discovery Miles 33 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first critical anthology to examine the controversial history of the zoo by focusing on its close relationship with screen media histories and technologies. Individual chapters address the representation of zoological spaces in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, documentary and animation, amateur and avant-garde film, popular television and online media. The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter provides a new map of twentieth-century human-animal relations by exploring how the zoo, that modern apparatus for presenting living animals to human audiences, has itself been represented across a diverse range of moving image media.

The Speaking Animal - Ethics, Language and the Human-Animal Divide (Hardcover): Alison Suen The Speaking Animal - Ethics, Language and the Human-Animal Divide (Hardcover)
Alison Suen
R3,927 Discovery Miles 39 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human. How should we understand this human-animal divide? Not only does it inform us of who we are, it also tells us how we should relate to the larger non-human world. The Speaking Animal interrogates the human-animal divide by looking at our linguistic differences - how the speaking human subject is constructed through its opposition to the dumb animal. Alison Suen begins with an analysis of the role of language in animal ethics, with an eye toward the voice/voiceless opposition that is at work in animal advocacy. After offering a critical analysis of the ethical and political significance of speaking for animals, the book takes on a more constructive turn, going against the usual interpretation of language as a capacity that allows us to reason. Instead, it argues that our language capacity is also a relational capacity. Language is that which enables us to develop kinship with others - including animal others.

Why Vegan? (Paperback): Peter Singer Why Vegan? (Paperback)
Peter Singer
R224 R202 Discovery Miles 2 020 Save R22 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?' One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism, triggered the animal rights movement and gave impetus to the rise in vegan eating. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

Ecofeminism, Second Edition - Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (Paperback, 2nd edition): Carol J Adams,... Ecofeminism, Second Edition - Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Carol J Adams, Lori Gruen
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This new edition of Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth begins with an historical, grounding overview that situates ecofeminist theory and activism within the larger field of ecocriticism and provides a timeline for important publications and events. Throughout the book, authors engage with intersections of gender, sexuality, gender expression, race, disability, and species to address the various ways that sexism, heteronormativity, racism, colonialism, and ableism are informed by and support animal oppression. This collection is broken down into three separate sections: -Affect includes contributions from leading theorists and activists on how our emotions and embodiment can and must inform our relationships with the more-than-human world -Context explores the complexities of appreciating difference and the possibilities of living less violently -Climate, new to the second edition, provides an overview of our climate crisis as well as the climate for critical discussion and debate about ecofeminist ideas and actions Drawing on animal studies, environmental studies, feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics, the ecofeminist contributors to this volume stress the need to move beyond binaries and attend to context over universal judgments; spotlight the importance of care as well as justice, emotion as well as reason; and work to undo the logic of domination and its material implications.

Animals and Ourselves - Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries (Paperback): Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd... Animals and Ourselves - Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries (Paperback)
Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne
R957 Discovery Miles 9 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The relationship between humans and animals has always been strong, symbiotic and complicated. Animals, real and fictional, have been a mainstay in the arts and entertainment, figuring prominently in literature, film, television, social media, and live performances. Increasingly, though, people are anthropomorphizing animals, assigning them humanoid roles, tasks and identities. At the same time, humans, such as members of the furry culture or college mascots, find pleasure in adopting animal identities and characteristics. This is the first book of its kind to explore these growing phenomena across media. The contributors to this book represent various disciplines in the arts, humanities and healthcare. Their essays demonstrate the various ways that human and animal lives are intertwined and constantly evolving.

Ethics and Animals - An Introduction (Hardcover, New): Lori Gruen Ethics and Animals - An Introduction (Hardcover, New)
Lori Gruen
R2,256 Discovery Miles 22 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and empathetically reflect on our treatment of other animals. In clear and accessible language, Gruen provides a survey of the issues central to human-animal relations and a reasoned new perspective on current key debates in the field. She analyses and explains a range of theoretical positions and poses challenging questions that directly encourage readers to hone their ethical reasoning skills and to develop a defensible position about their own practices. Her book will be an invaluable resource for students in a wide range of disciplines including ethics, environmental studies, veterinary science, women's studies, and the emerging field of animal studies and is an engaging account of the subject for general readers with no prior background in philosophy.

No Happy Cows - Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution (Vegetarian, Vegan, Sustainable Diet, for Readers of The... No Happy Cows - Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution (Vegetarian, Vegan, Sustainable Diet, for Readers of The Ethics of What We Eat) (Paperback)
John Robbins
R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

John Robbins shares his dispatches from the front lines of the food revolution - from his undercover investigations of feed lots and slaughterhouses, to the rise of food contamination, the slave trade behind chocolate and coffee, and the effects of hormones on animals and animal products.

The IACUC Handbook (Hardcover, 3rd edition): Jerald Silverman, Mark A. Suckow, Sreekant Murthy The IACUC Handbook (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Jerald Silverman, Mark A. Suckow, Sreekant Murthy
R2,886 Discovery Miles 28 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ever since its establishment by USDA regulation in the mid-1980s, the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) has evolved as the premier instrument of animal welfare oversight within research institutions in the United States. As biomedical research continuously grows, the role and impact of the IACUC has increased in scope and complexity. The IACUC Handbook has become "the Bible" for individuals when the time comes for them to serve on their institution's IACUC. It provides a foundation for understanding and implementing the many and varied responsibilities of this committee. This Third Edition comprehensively addresses the significant changes in the pertinent regulatory environment and interpretation of applicable federal laws, regulations, and policies. It provides multiple references and commentary on the new edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, the new AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals: 2013 Edition, and the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare's Frequently Asked Questions. The Third Edition also features an updated survey of IACUC practices from institutions around the United States, offering wisdom gained from their experience. In addition, it includes a chapter that provides an international perspective on how animal welfare reviews can function in other countries.

Le Dobermann (French, Paperback): Francois Kiesgen De Richter Le Dobermann (French, Paperback)
Francois Kiesgen De Richter
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Eat The Beetles! - An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects (Paperback): David Waltner-Toews Eat The Beetles! - An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects (Paperback)
David Waltner-Toews
R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Social Lives with Other Animals - Tales of Sex, Death and Love (Hardcover): E. Cudworth Social Lives with Other Animals - Tales of Sex, Death and Love (Hardcover)
E. Cudworth
R1,400 Discovery Miles 14 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways other animals are constitutive of human social lives at the dinner table, as livestock and as companions in our homes"--

Pets and People - The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals (Hardcover): Christine Overall Pets and People - The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals (Hardcover)
Christine Overall
R3,571 Discovery Miles 35 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Animal ethics is generating growing interest both within academia and outside it. This book focuses on ethical issues connected to animals who play an extremely important role in human lives: companion animals ("pets"), with a special emphasis on dogs and cats, the animals most often chosen as pets. Companion animals are both vulnerable to and dependent upon us. What responsibilities do we owe to them, especially since we have the power and authority to make literal life-and-death decisions about them? What kinds of relationships should we have with our companion animals? And what might we learn from cats and dogs about the nature and limits of our own morality? The contributors write from a variety of philosophical perspectives, including utilitarianism, care ethics, feminist ethics, phenomenology, and the genealogy of ideas. The eighteen chapters are divided into two sections, to provide a general background to ethical debate about companion animals, followed by a focus on a number of crucial aspects of human relationships to companion animals. The first section discusses the nature of our relationships to companion animals, the foundations of our moral responsibilities to companion animals, what our relationships with companion animals teach us, and whether animals themselves can act ethically. The second part explores some specific ethical issues related to crucial aspects of companion animals' lives-breeding, reproduction, sterilization, cloning, adoption, feeding, training, working, sexual interactions, longevity, dying, and euthanasia.

Education for Animal Welfare (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.): Edward N. Eadie Education for Animal Welfare (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
Edward N. Eadie
R3,992 Discovery Miles 39 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book deals with the role of education in improving animal welfare and reducing animal suffering inflicted by humans. It embraces situations in which humans have direct control over animals or interfere directly with them, but it considers also indirect animal suffering resulting from human activities. Education is regarded in the broad sense of creating awareness and facilitating change. First, consideration is given to a number of specific themes in which education can make an important contribution towards reducing animal suffering, and subsequently an examination is made of a number of interrelated contexts in which education can address the various themes. The considered educational themes are: animal suffering and sentience that have both scientific and moral aspects human discrimination against animals known as speciesism and the need for attitudinal change by humans role and existing limitations of legislation in providing protection to animals matter of enforcement of animal protection legislation achievement of reform to improve animal protection by legislative and other means class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> training of professionals, carers, and users involved with animals to provide better protection the scope for science to contribute to improved animal protection animal protection as a regional and international issue

Colonizing Animals (Hardcover): Jonathan Saha Colonizing Animals (Hardcover)
Jonathan Saha
R2,634 R2,225 Discovery Miles 22 250 Save R409 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals were impacted and transformed by colonial subjugation. By examining the writings of Burmese nationalists and the experiences of subaltern groups, he also shows how animals were mobilized by Burmese anticolonial activists in opposition to imperial rule. In demonstrating how animals - such as elephants, crocodiles, and rats - were important actors never fully under the control of humans, Saha uncovers a history of how British colonialism transformed ecologies and fostered new relationships with animals in Myanmar. Colonizing Animals introduces the reader to an innovative historical methodology for exploring interspecies relationships in the imperial past, using innovative concepts for studying interspecies empires that draw on postcolonial theory and critical animal studies.

Duty and the Beast - Should We Eat Meat in the Name of Animal Rights? (Paperback): Andy Lamey Duty and the Beast - Should We Eat Meat in the Name of Animal Rights? (Paperback)
Andy Lamey
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Animal Rights: All That Matters (Paperback): Mark Rowlands Animal Rights: All That Matters (Paperback)
Mark Rowlands
R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Ships in 4 - 6 working days

Animal Rights is a big deal. From animal testing to vegetarianism, and hunting to preservation of fish stocks, it's a topic that's always in the news. Mark Rowlands, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf, is the world's best known philosopher of animal rights. In this, the first introduction he has written to the topic, he starts by asking whether there is anything about humans that makes us psychologically or physiologically distinctive - so that there might be a moral justification for treating animals in a different way to how we treat humans. From this foundation, he goes on to explore specific issues of eating animals, experimentation, pets, hunting, zoos, predation and engineering animals. He ends with a challenging argument of how an improved understanding of animal ethics can and should affect readers' choices.

Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare (Hardcover): Andrew Knight, Clive Phillips, Paula Sparks Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare (Hardcover)
Andrew Knight, Clive Phillips, Paula Sparks
R7,079 Discovery Miles 70 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

- Provides a much-needed, comprehensive overview of the field of animal welfare, which has been rapidly growing and evolving - Reviews the core topics in this field, such as the scientific bases for moral consideration of animals, developing conceptualisations of animal welfare, the broad range of animal welfare issues, animal ethics, animal advocacy campaigns, and animal law and policy - Addresses emerging issues such as the impact of climate change, animal exploitation, antimicrobial resistance and pandemics - essential reading for students of animal welfare everywhere, and for policy-makers, researchers and other professionals working in the animal welfare sector

Thomas Hardy and Animals (Paperback): Anna West Thomas Hardy and Animals (Paperback)
Anna West
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thomas Hardy and Animals examines the human and nonhuman animals who walk and crawl and fly across and around the pages of Hardy's novels. Animals abound in his writings, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to them so far. This book fills this gap in Hardy studies, bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry. It considers the way Hardy's representations of animals challenged ideas of human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. In moments of encounter between humans and animals, Hardy questions boundaries based on ideas of moral sense or moral agency, language and reason, the possession of a face, and the capacity to suffer and perceive pain. Through an emphasis on embodied encounters, his writings call for an extension of empathy to others, human or nonhuman. In this accessible book Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.

Never Work with Animals - The Unfiltered Truth of Life as a Vet (Paperback): Gareth Steel Never Work with Animals - The Unfiltered Truth of Life as a Vet (Paperback)
Gareth Steel
R320 R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Imagine going from neurologist to dermatologist, orthopaedic surgeon to obstetrician, assassin to saviour - all in one day. Welcome to the extraordinary world of veterinary medicine... In Never Work with Animals, vet Gareth Steel shares the moments of humour, horror and heroism across his 20-year career caring for creatures great and small, from bulls to stick insects. Thought-provoking, heartwarming and often laugh-out-loud funny, this unforgettable memoir reveals what life is really like for our vets.

The Political Lives of Victorian Animals - Liberal Creatures in Literature and Culture (Paperback): Anna Feuerstein The Political Lives of Victorian Animals - Liberal Creatures in Literature and Culture (Paperback)
Anna Feuerstein
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

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