E. Aaltola

Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center is the pivotal question: What is the moral significance of animal suffering?

Produktdetails

• The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-28391-6
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 247
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780230283916
• ISBN-10: 0230283918
• Artikelnr.: 35530229

Autorenporträt

ELISA AALTOLA is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Eastern Finland. She has been researching the theoretical ramifications behind, and practical implications of, the moral status of non-human animals for a number of years and has previously published two Finnish books on animal ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Animal Suffering: The Practice Knowing Suffering History of Caring Morality and Non-Human Suffering: Analytical Animal Ethics Morality and Animal Suffering: Continental Investigations Emotion, Empathy, and Intersubjectivity Action Against Suffering Conclusion Notes References Index