Living with Animals brings a pragmatist ecofeminst perspective to discussions around animal rights, animal welfare, and animal ethics to move the conversation beyond simple use or non-use decisions. Erin McKenna uses a case study approach with select species to question how humans should live and interact with various animal beings through specific instances of such relationships. Addressing standard topics such as the use of animals for food, use for biomedical research, use in entertainment, use as companions, use as captive specimens in zoos, and use in hunting and ecotourism through a revolutionary pluralist and experimental approach, McKenna provides an uncommonly nuanced accounts for complex relationships and changing circumstances. Rather than seek absolute moral stands regarding human relationships with other animal beings, and rather than trying to end such relationships altogether, the books urges us to make existing relations better.
| ISBN: | 9781538128206 |
| Publication date: | 24th November 2020 |
| Author: | Erin McKenna |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 212 pages |
| Series: | Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Social and political philosophy Ethics and moral philosophy |