Research Catalog

Title

Corporal compassion : animal ethics and philosophy of body / Ralph R. Acampora.

Author

Acampora, Ralph R., 1965-

Publication

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006.

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Description

xv, 201 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Animal rights > Philosophy
• Animals (Philosophy)
• Human-animal relationships > Philosophy
• Mens-dier-relatie
• Ethische aspecten
• Fenomenologie
• Lichamelijkheid

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-197) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Somaesthetics and animal ethics -- 1. Interspecies ethics and phenomenology of body : precursors and pathways -- 2. Flesh-and-blood being-in-a-world : toward a transpecific ontology of somatic society -- 3. Appreciation of animal nature under the aspect of bodiment -- 4. Ethos and Leib : "symphysics" of transpecific morality -- 5. Body bioethics in realms of the carnal and the carceral -- 6. Contexts and promise of corporal compassion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 0822942852 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780822942856 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006008627

OCLC

• 64770978
• SCSB-11357927

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library