The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue

Paola Cavalieri; with Matthew Calarco, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and Cary Wolfe; foreword by Peter Singer

February, 2009
Cloth, 168 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14552-7
$19.95 / £13.95

Acknowledgments

Foreword, by Peter Singer

The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue on Perfectionism, by Paola Cavalieri

Roundtable

I

Humanist and Posthumanist Antispeciesism, by Cary Wolfe

No Escape, by Harlan B. Miller

Toward an Agnostic Animal Ethics, by Matthew Calarco

Comments on Paola Cavalieri, "A Dialogue on Perfectionism", by John M. Coetzee

II

Notes on Issues Raised by Matthew Calarco, by John M. Coetzee

Pushing Things Forward, by Paola Cavalieri

Distracting Difficulties, by Harlan B. Miller

On Appetite, the Right to Life, and Rational Ethics, by John M. Coetzee

"On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings", by Cary Wolfe

Between Life and Rights, by Matthew Calarco

Notes

Related Subjects

• Animal Studies
• Ethics

About the Author

Paola Cavalieri lives in Milan and is the editor of the international philosophy journal Etica & Animali. She is the author of The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights and, with Peter Singer, edited the award-winning book, The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity.

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