
- Bêtes Humaines ?
- Introduction aux Droits des Animaux
- Making a Killing
- Petit traité de Véganisme
- La Politique Sexuelle de la Viande
- Ne nous mangez pas !
- Animal Rights/Human Rights.
- Vegan is Love
- Animal Oppression and Human Violence
- Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
- Animals and the Moral Community
- Animals as Persons
- Animals, Property, and the Law
- Critical Theory and Animal Liberation
- Motivational Methods for Vegan Advocacy
- Le Spécisme Illustré
- Animals and the Moral Community
- Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under the rubric of postmodernist theory lacks a proper basis for a systematic engagement with ethics.
Steiner demonstrates this through a provocative critique of postmodernist approaches to the moral status of animals, set against the background of a broader indictment of postmodernism's failure to establish clear principles for action. He revisits the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, together with recent work by their American interpreters, and shows that the basic terms of postmodern thought are incompatible with definitive claims about the moral status of animals—as well as humans. Steiner also identifies the failures of liberal humanist thought in regards to this same moral dilemma, and he encourages a rethinking of humanist ideas in a way that avoids the anthropocentric limitations of traditional humanist thought. Drawing on the achievements of the Stoics and Kant, he builds on his earlier ideas of cosmic holism and non-anthropocentric cosmopolitanism to arrive at a more concrete foundation for animal rights.
With this book, Steiner establishes himself as one of the most talented and insightful philosophers working in the burgeoning field of animal rights
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Use and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Life
2. Postmodernism and Justice
3. "Later here signifies never": Derrida on Animals
4. Animal Rights and the Evasions of Postmodernism
5. Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism
6. Cosmopolitanism and Veganism
Bibliography
Index