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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethicsdi Josephine Donovan
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In Beyond Animal Rights, Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams introduced feminist "ethic of care" theory into philosophical discussions of the treatment of animals. In this new volume, seven essays from Beyond Animal Rights are joined by nine new articles-most of which were written in response to that book-and a new introduction that situates feminist animal care theory within feminist theory and the larger debate over animal rights. Contributors critique theorists' reliance on natural rights doctrine and utilitarianism, which, they suggest, have a masculine bias. They argue for ethical attentiveness and sympathy in our relationships with animals and propose a link between the continuing subjugation of women and the human domination of nature. Beginning with the earliest articulation of the idea in the mid-1980s and continuing to the theory's most recent revisions, this volume presents the most complete portrait of the evolution of the feminist-care tradition. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)179.3Philosophy and Psychology Ethics Other Ethical Topics Treatment of animalsClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (4)
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"Care" is throughout contrasted to the "rights & reason" model of Singer and Regan, which is, justifiably, accused of uncritically perpetuating subject/object distinctions (and all this implies) and of ignoring the ugly history of the category "reason." I'm in full sympathy with the "care" model, and am happy to add these thoughts to Levinas's infinite demands of the Other, Derrida's deep suspicions about reason, the law, and the 'good conscience,' as well as Leonard Lawlor's observations about the 'minimal violence' required to single something out for care. Given the training of the essayists here, it wouldn't really be fair to demand they know all this other work, but it is fair, I think, to take them to task for not showing any knowledge of cognitive science's advances in discovering the intelligence of emotion and (concomitantly) that a purely 'reasonable' brain is a pretty stupid thing.
Some essays (Marti Kheel's most of all) have aged badly; many would benefit from engagement with the intellectual traditions and thinkers who have ignored them (and of course vice versa: only Carol Adams engages with Derrida); some strike me as supererogatory (the first Donovan and Kelch essays); but many of the essays--Josephine Donovan "Attention to Suffering: Sympathy as a Basis for Ethical Treatment of Animals"; Thomas G. Kelch "The Role of the Rational and the Emotive in a Theory of Animal Rights"; Catherine MacKinnon "Of Mice and Men: A Fragment on Animal Rights"; Cathryn Bailey, "On the Backs of Animals: The Valorization of Reason in Contemporary Animal Ethics" [note the world of difference between "Rights" and "Ethics"!)--are essential reading for CAT and, being outside the abstruse rhetorical traditions of continental philosophy (for better and worse), could be very useful in a classroom setting. (