Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents

Autorentext
Gary Steiner is John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. He is the author of Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship, and Descartes as a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism. He is also the translator of Prauss's Knowing and Doing in Heidegger's "Being and Time" and Lowith's Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism.

Klappentext
Provides a comprehensive examination of views of animals in the history of Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century. It sketches the terms of the current debates about animals and relates these to their historical antecedents, focusing on both the dominant anthropocentric voices and those recurring voices that instead assert a fundamental kinship relation between human beings and animals.

Zusammenfassung
Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents is the first-ever comprehensive examination of views of animals in the history of Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century.

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