Animals, Mind, and Matter: The Inside Story

✍ Scribed by Josephine Donovan

Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 144
Series: The Animal Turn
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

It’s no secret that animals are considered objects in the fields of law, commerce, and science, characterized as property and commodities. Animals, Mind, and Matter: The Inside Story challenges this ascription and establishes that animals are living subjects, who have minds and opinions of their own and care about what happens to them. Donovan contends that animals’ voices or standpoints should be part of any human decisions concerning their ethical treatment. Elaborating on feminist care theory and critical animal standpoint theory, the author provides compelling evidence for animal subjectivity, exploring in the process the nature of subjectivity and consciousness while drawing from recent developments in quantum and emergence theories that point away from the dominant ontology of Cartesian objectivism. Through these explorations, Donovan proposes that a new narrative is emerging in the arts and sciences—an inside story that re-subjectifies natural life and leaves behind the deadening Midas touch of Cartesian objectivism.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One. Caring to Heed the Voice of Animals
Chapter Two. Interspecies Dialogue
Chapter Three. The Inside Story
Chapter Four. Subjectivity, Telos, and Ethical Meaning
Chapter Five. Animal Dignity
Chapter Six. Radical Natural Law
Chapter Seven. The New Materialism and the Question of Subjectivity
Chapter Eight. Panpsychism, Participatory Epistemology, and Cosmic Sympathy
Chapter Nine. Ethical Mimesis and Emergence Aesthetics
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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