Animal suffering : philosophy and culture /

Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture explores how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications. It is often argued that today's culture is ambivalent in its attitudes toward non-human animals: on the one hand, many speak of the importance of 'animal welfare', a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aaltola, Elisa, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ♭2012.
Series:Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.