Critical Terms for Animal Studies
- Contents
- Review Quotes

1 Abolition • Claire Jean Kim
2 Activism • Jeff Sebo and Peter Singer
3 Anthropocentrism • Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
4 Behavior • Alexandra Horowitz
5 Biopolitics • Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel
6 Captivity • Lori Marino
7 Difference • Kari Weil
8 Emotion • Barbara J. King
9 Empathy • Lori Gruen
10 Ethics • Alice Crary
11 Extinction • Thom van Dooren
12 Kinship • Agustín Fuentes and Natalie Porter
13 Law • Kristen Stilt
14 Life • Eduardo Kohn
15 Matter • James K. Stanescu
16 Mind • Kristin Andrews
17 Pain • Victoria A. Braithwaite
18 Personhood • Colin Dayan
19 Postcolonial • Maneesha Deckha
20 Rationality • Christine M. Korsgaard
21 Representation • Robert R. McKay
22 Rights • Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson
23 Sanctuary • Timothy Pachirat
24 Sentience • Gary Varner
25 Sociality • Cynthia Willett and Malini Suchak
26 Species • Harriet Ritvo
27 Vegan • Annie Potts and Philip Armstrong
28 Vulnerability • Anat Pick
29 Welfare • Clare Palmer and Peter Sandøe
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
"This is the latest in Chicago's 'Critical Terms' series, containing an introduction and 29 contributed chapters edited by philosophy scholar Lori Gruen, who has published widely on ethics issues. Among the contributing authors to this volume are names familiar to academicians across disciplines, such as Peter Singer, Will Kymlicka, Barbara King, and Christine Korsgaard, as well as many others who represent the new generation of scholars in the burgeoning field of animal studies. Each essay is devoted to a particular 'term,' collectively covering a broad range of concerns with respect to the multifaceted interrelationships between humans and other animals...Recommended."
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