Animals, Mind, and Matter: The Inside Story
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1611864372 | 144 pages | True PDF | 8.51 MB
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.
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