Leading philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen offer a searing and desperately needed response to systems of thought and action that are failing animals and, ultimately, humans too. In the wake of global pandemics, mass extinctions, habitat destruction, and catastrophic climate change, they issue a clarion call to address the intertwined problems we face, arguing that we must radically reimagine our relationships with other animals. In stark contrast to traditional theories in animal ethics, which abstract from social mechanisms harmful to human beings, Animal Crisis makes the case that there can be no animal liberation without human emancipation. Borrowing from critical theories such as ecofeminism, Crary and Gruen present a critical animal theory for understanding and combating the structural forces that enable the diminishment of so many to the advantage of a few. With seven case studies of complex human-animal relations, they make an urgent plea to dismantle the “human supremacism” that is devastating animal lives and hurtling us toward ecocide.
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Alice Crary. Animal Crisis
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
Animal Crisis. A new critical theory
About Writing This Book
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 Crisis / Orangutans
The Rapidly Expanding Problem
2 Ethics / Pigs
Considering Animals
The Reality of Animal Suffering
Animal Ideologies
3 Suffering / Cows
Equal Consideration
Moral Hierarchies
The Point of View of the Universe
Sensitivity to Others
4 Minds / Octopuses
How Animals Lost their Minds
Mirror, Mirror
From Mind to Morality
5 Dignity / Rats
Violations of Animal Dignity
New Discourses of Dignity
Hatred of Animals, Oppression of Human Beings
Rethinking Dignity
6 Seeing / Parrots
Animal Visibility
Looking at Zoos
Ethics and Politics of Sight
7 Politics / Ticks
The “Political Turn” in Animal Ethics
Ecofeminist Ethics and Politics
Untimely Resistance
References
Websites referenced
Further Reading
Index. A
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D
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“Animal Crisis is the intellectual sum of two astute thinkers, Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, both powerful leading voices in animal ethics. By deftly weaving tenets and practices of critical social thought with the aims of animal ethics, Crary and Gruen create a new fabric with which to remake human relationships with non-human animals.
The authors do animals the great service of considering them for themselves, of seeing their desires and relationships and experiences, and working to forge a practice that honors that consideration. Animal Crisis is a lucid and urgent invitation to a new animal ethics.”
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Sally Haslanger, author of Resisting Reality
“Animal Crisis is philosophy as it should be: empirically, socially, and politically informed. This book is so radical, so morally unsettling, that you have to take your courage in both hands to read it. But read it you should. It is that important.”
