Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights
By (Author) lisabeth de Fontenay
Translated by Will Bishop
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st October 2012
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Animals and society
599.15
Physical Properties
Paperback
168
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 25mm
Description
A central thinker on the question of the animal in continental thought, lisabeth de Fontenay moves in this volume from Jacques Derrida's uneasily intimate writing on animals to a passionate frontal engagement with political and ethical theory as it has been applied to animalsalong with a stinging critique of the works of Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri as well as other "utilitarian" philosophers of animalhuman relations.
Reviews
"Without Offending Humans is an excellent, timely, well-argued book. lisabeth de Fontenay is an original thinker, urging us to consider a rethought version of historical materialism and a utopic animalism."Leonard Lawler, author of Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy
Author Bio
Born in 1934, lisabeth de Fontenay was closely associated with the late Jacques Derrida and is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Sorbonne. She is the author of Le silence des btes: La philosophie lpreuve de lanimalit and Diderot: Reason and Resonance.
Will Bishop received his doctorate in French literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Paris, where he teaches and translates.
