Animals and the limits of postmodernism /

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.
Subject:	Animals (Philosophy) Animal rights. Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. Postmodernism. Animal rights. Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. Animals (Philosophy) Postmodernism. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11189846

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ISBN:	9780231527293 0231527292 9780231153423 0231153422 9780231153430 0231153430
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

The use and disadvantages of Nietzsche for life
Postmodernism and justice
"Later here signifies never": Derrida on animals
Animal rights and the evasions of postmodernism
Toward a nonanthropocentric cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism and veganism.