Animals and the limits of postmodernism /

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Author / Creator:Steiner, Gary, 1956-
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 292 pages).
Language:English
Series:Critical perspectives on animals : theory, culture, science, and law
Critical perspectives on animals.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11189846
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ISBN:9780231527293
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0231153422
9780231153430
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:While postmodern approaches to politics and ethics have offered some intriguing and influential insights in philosophy and theory, Gary Steiner illuminates the fundamental inability of these approaches to arrive at viable ethical and political principles. Ethics require notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Therefore much of what is published under the rubric of theory lacks a proper basis for a systematic engagement with ethics. Steiner provocatively critiques postmodernist approaches to the moral status of animals against the background of a.
Other form:Print version: Steiner, Gary, 1956- Animals and the limits of postmodernism. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 9780231153423

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