A Political Theory of Animal Rights
by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlycka
- Author(s)
- Sue Donaldson, Will Kymlycka
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014
- Scope
- 329 Pages, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780199673018
Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of moral theory and applied ethics to the realm of political theory, focusing on the relational obligations that arise from the varied ways that animals relate to human societies and institutions. Building on recent developments in the political theory of group-differentiated citizenship, Zoopolis introduces us to the genuine "political animal". It argues that different types of animals stand in different relationships to human political communities. Humans and animals are inextricably bound in a complex web of relationships, and Zoopolis offers an original and profoundly affirmative vision of how to ground this complex web of relations on principles of justice and compassion.
- Keywords
- post anthropocene , aesthetics - critical aesthetics
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 4: Antropoceen
- Remarks
- Incl. notes, Index, Bibliography
