Anthropocentrism : humans, animals, environments /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Human-animal studies, 1573-4226 ; 12 Human-animal studies, 1573-4226 ; 12. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11100040 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors.; Introduction. The End of Anthropocentrism Rob Boddice; part one; Epistemological and ontological investigations; What is this Quintessence of Dust? The Concept of the 'Human'and its Origins Boria Sax; The View from Somewhere: Anthropocentrism in Metaethics Kevin DeLapp; The Making of the Human: Anthropocentrism in ModernSocial Thought Richie Nimmo; Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Cosmopolitanism Gary Steiner; part two; religion, society, culture.
- Anthropocentrism and the Medieval Problem of ReligiousLanguage Eric J. SilvermanVitruvian Man is a Pterosaur: Notes on the Transformationof an Architectural Ideal Paula Young Lee; Modernity as Anthropolarity: The Human Economy ofFrankenstein Ben Dawson; Anthropocentrism and the Definition of 'Culture' as a Markerof the Human/Animal Divide Sabrina Tonutti; part three; Speciesism and The Status of Animal's; Are Animals Poor in the World? A Critique of Heidegger'sAnthropocentrism ... 203Philip Tonner.
- Speciesism as a Variety of Anthropocentrism ... 223Tony MilliganThe Instrumentalisation of Horses in Nineteenth-CenturyParis ... 245Peter Soppelsa; Anthropomorphism and the Animal Subject ... 265Nik Taylor; part four; human and non-human environments; Social History, Religion and Technology: An Interdisci-plinary Investigation into White's 'Roots' Robin Attfield; An Alternative to Anthropocentrism: Deep Ecology and theMetaphysical Turn Eccy de Jonge.
- Anthropocentrism and Reason in Dialectic of Enlightenment:Environmental Crisis and Animal Subject AndreĢ KrebberIndex.