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Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or "left" tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of "animal rights," the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a political question of the first order. The contributions highlight connections between our everyday treatment of animals and other forms of social power, mass violence, and domination, from capitalism and patriarchy to genocide, fascism, and ecocide.Contributors include well-known writers in the field as well as scholars in other areas writing on animals for the first time. Among other things, the authors apply Freud's theory of repression to our relationship to the animal, debunk the "Locavore" movement, expose the sexism of the animal defense movement, and point the way toward a new transformative politics that would encompass the human and animal alike.
John Sanbonmatsu is associate professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of The Postmodern Prince.
Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I. Commodity Fetishism and Structural ViolenceChapter 1: Procrustean Solutions to Animal Identity and Welfare ProblemsKaren DavisChapter 2: Road Kill: Commodity Fetishism and Structural ViolenceDennis SoronChapter 3: Corporate Power, Ecological Crisis, and Animal RightsCarl BoggsPart II. Animals, Marxism, and the Frankfurt SchoolChapter 4: Humanism = Speciesism?: Marx on Humans and AnimalsTed BentonChapter 5: Reflections on the Prospects for a Non-Speciesist MarxismRenzo LlorenteChapter 6: Thinking With: Animals in Schopenhauer, Horkheimer, and AdornoChristina GerhardtChapter 7: Animal is to Kantianism as Jew Is to Fascism: Adorno's BestiaryEduardo MendietaPart III. Speciesism and Ideologies of DominationChapter 8: Dialectic of AnthropocentrismAaron BellChapter 9: Animal Repression: Speciesism as PathologyZipporah WeisbergChapter 10: Neuroscience (a Poem)Susan BenstonChapter 11: Everyday Rituals of the Master Race: Fascism,
This book breaks new ground in both critical theory and the ethics debate surrounding the mistreatment and domination of animals by humans. An indispensable collection for anyone interested in these areas of social critique, these essays sketch a comprehensive alternative to the prevailing strands of neo-Marxist and liberal philosophies.