Anthropocentrism

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xxii, 348 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Rob Boddice, Ph.D. (2006) in History, University of York, is a member of the Sonderforschungsbereich 640 at Humboldt University, Berlin. He has published widely in the history of human-animal relations, most recently Vivisecting Major', Isis, 101 (2011).

Readership

All those working in animal studies, cultural studies, the history of ideas, post-humanism in anthropology sociology, environmental and ecological studies, and ethics. It will appeal to undergraduates and their teachers.

Introduction The End of Anthropocentrism
Rob Boddice

PART ONE
ONTOLOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Chapter One What is this Quintessence of Dust? The Concept of the ‘Human’ and its Origins
Boria Sax
Chapter Two The View from Somewhere: Anthropocentrism in Metaethics
Kevin M DeLapp
Chapter Three The Making of the Human: Anthropocentrism in Modern Social Thought
Richie Nimmo
Chapter Four Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Cosmopolitanism
Gary Steiner

PART TWO
RELIGION, SOCIETY, CULTURE
Chapter Five Anthropocentrism and the Medieval Problem of Religious Language
Eric Silverman
Chapter Six Vitruvian Man is a Pterosaur: Notes on the Trans-formation of an Architectural Ideal
Paula Young Lee
Chapter Seven Modernity as Anthropolarity: The Human Economy of Frankenstein
Ben Dawson
Chapter Eight Anthropocentrism and the Definition of ‘Culture’ as a Marker of the Human/Animal Divide
Sabrina Tonutti

PART THREE
SPECIESISM AND THE STATUS OF ANIMALS
Chapter Nine Are Animals Poor in the World? A Critique of Heidegger’s Anthropocentrism
Philip Tonner
Chapter Ten Speciesism as a Variety of Anthropocentrism
Tony Milligan
Chapter Eleven The Instrumentalisation of Horses in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Peter Soppelsa
Chapter Twelve Anthropomorphism and the Animal Subject
Nik Taylor

PART FOUR
HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN ENVIRONMENTS
Chapter Thirteen Social History, Religion and Technology: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into White’s ‘Roots’
Robin Attfield
Chapter Fourteen An Alternative to Anthropocentrism: Deep Ecology and the Metaphysical Turn
Eccy de Jonge
Chapter Fifteen Anthropocentrism and Reason in Dialectic of Enlightenment: Environmental Crisis and Animal Subject
André Krebber

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