Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism

Released on by Gary Steiner
preview-18

  • Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism Book Detail

  • Author : Gary Steiner
  • Release Date : 2013-04-16
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Genre : Nature
  • Pages : 307
  • ISBN 13 : 0231527292
  • File Size : 58,58 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism by Gary Steiner PDF Summary

Book Description: In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under the rubric of postmodernist theory lacks a proper basis for a systematic engagement with ethics. Steiner demonstrates this through a provocative critique of postmodernist approaches to the moral status of animals, set against the background of a broader indictment of postmodernism's failure to establish clear principles for action. He revisits the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, together with recent work by their American interpreters, and shows that the basic terms of postmodern thought are incompatible with definitive claims about the moral status of animals—as well as humans. Steiner also identifies the failures of liberal humanist thought in regards to this same moral dilemma, and he encourages a rethinking of humanist ideas in a way that avoids the anthropocentric limitations of traditional humanist thought. Drawing on the achievements of the Stoics and Kant, he builds on his earlier ideas of cosmic holism and non-anthropocentric cosmopolitanism to arrive at a more concrete foundation for animal rights.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism

Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism

File Size : 98,98 MB
Total View : 871 Views
DOWNLOAD

In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requir

Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism

Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism

File Size : 93,93 MB
Total View : 8903 Views
DOWNLOAD

In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requir

What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals

What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals

File Size : 35,35 MB
Total View : 8959 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition's assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It makes a case for the full and dir

Postmodern Animal

Postmodern Animal

File Size : 80,80 MB
Total View : 9442 Views
DOWNLOAD

In The Postmodern Animal, Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and