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 move past recent reforms and look to a future beyond exploitation or total noninterference-a posthumanist culture that advocates caring in a participatory approach.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13
9780822942856
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94775983
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Domestic Policy
Author
Ralph Acampora
Publication Name
Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
230mm
Item Width
150mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ralph Acampora
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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