Palgrave MacMillan Animal Ethics

By: L. Johnson

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Hardcover | 15 March 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Amid the debates about the status of animals in western civilization, one 'truth' about them remains relatively unchanging in contemporary legal thought: animals are merely personal property. But, in other times and places, animals have been understood differently. They have variously been conceptualized as ensouled, rational, or existing for reasons quite apart from their 'use' to humans. Can a new truth about animals ever emerge again, so that they are understood as something besides property? This Foucaultian critique of thought about animals examines the 'truth' about animals as merely an historical contingency, variable according to the conditions that have allowed the production of that 'truth,' and certainly one that could change. The contemporary emergences of numerous animal studies programs in academia may signify that such a change in power-knowledge is afoot - one that may resurrect a new truth about animals from discourses that have long been subjugated.

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Series Editors' Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Essential Political Problem	p. 5
A suggested perspective	p. 9
Introduction to Foucaultian methodology and theory	p. 11
Power	p. 14
The "essential political problem"	p. 20
Organization of the project	p. 22
The animal as a subject	p. 23
A Foucaultian perspective	p. 24
Language and reality	p. 26
What the term "animal" refers to in this work	p. 33
Scope and limitations	p. 37
Contemporary Discourses about Animals	p. 39
The discourse of law	p. 41
The discourse of lines	p. 56
Insurrection	p. 63
Organization of chapter	p. 66
The subordination of knowledge of animals as living beings	p. 68
Transmigration of souls discourse	p. 74
Karmic discourse	p. 76
Rational animals discourse	p. 78
The potential de-legitimizing power of insurrection	p. 82
Archaeology and the insurrection of buried discourse	p. 83
The hidden truth of error (or, some knowledge should just remain buried)	p. 96
On Blindness to Being	p. 100
Discursive formations	p. 101
Conceptual limitations	p. 103
Subjugated discourse: a resistance	p. 116
Parallelisms (Or, the Changeable Nature of Knowledge)	p. 123
Parallel stories	p. 125
The concept of man, and stories as supporting cast	p. 134
Parallel discourse about women	p. 142
A wildly speculative theorist with a visionary dogma	p. 150
Notes	p. 154
Bibliography	p. 159
Index	p. 171
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