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Corporal Compassion

Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body

  • Hardback
  • 282 pages
  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • 16.1 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

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Most approaches to animal ethics ground the moral standing of nonhumans in some appeal to their capacities for intelligent autonomy or mental sentience. "Corporal Compassion" emphasizes the phenomenal and somatic commonality of living beings: a philosophy of body that seeks to displace any notion of anthropomorphic empathy in viewing the moral experiences of nonhuman living beings. Ralph R. Acampora employs phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, and deconstruction to connect and contest analytic treatments of animal rights and liberation theory. In doing so, he focuses on issues of being and value, and posits a felt nexus of bodily being, termed symphysis, to devise an interspecies ethos. Acampora uses this broad-based bioethic to engage in dialogue with other strains of environmental ethics and ecophilosophy. "Corporal Compassion" examines the practical applications of the somatic ethos in contexts, such as laboratory experimentation and zoological exhibition, and challenges practitioners to go beyond recent reforms and look to a future beyond exploitation or total noninterference - a posthumanist culture that advocates caring in a participatory approach.
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  • Author

    Ralph Acampora

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of Pittsburgh Press

  • Published

    July 2006

  • Weight

    540g

  • Page Count

    282

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780822942856

  • ISBN-10

    0822942852

  • Eden Code

    4585463

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