Philosophy and Animal Life

by Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, John McDowell, et al.

Book Overview

Philosophy and Animal Life offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself. Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," in which she accuses analytical philosophy of evading, or deflecting, the responsibility of human beings toward nonhuman animals. Diamond then explores the animal question as it is bound up with the more general problem of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231145144
• ISBN13: 9780231145145
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher