Being animal : beasts and boundaries in nature ethics /

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Author / Creator:	Peterson, Anna Lisa, 1963-
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 222 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Critical perspectives on animals : theory, culture, science, and law Critical perspectives on animals.
Subject:	Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. Animal rights. Environmental protection. Animal rights. Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. Environmental protection. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11188566

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ISBN:	0231534264 9780231534260 9780231162265 023116226X 9780231162272 0231162278
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	If nature is what lies beyond human society, then animals must be a part of it. For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve the wilderness. They are also real creatures and individual subjects with whom we have diverse and complex relationshipsScholars, however, tend to treat animals and the environment as distinct, mutually exclusive objects of interest and concern. Conducting the first systematic examination of the place of animals in scholar.
Other form:	Print version: 9780231162265 023116226X

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