Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Commodity Fetishism and Structural Violence
Chapter 1: Procrustean Solutions to Animal Identity and Welfare
Problems
Karen Davis
Chapter 2: Road Kill: Commodity Fetishism and Structural
Violence
Dennis Soron
Chapter 3: Corporate Power, Ecological Crisis, and Animal
Rights
Carl Boggs
Part II. Animals, Marxism, and the Frankfurt School
Chapter 4: Humanism = Speciesism?: Marx on Humans and Animals
Ted Benton
Chapter 5: Reflections on the Prospects for a Non-Speciesist
Marxism
Renzo Llorente
Chapter 6: Thinking With: Animals in Schopenhauer, Horkheimer, and
Adorno
Christina Gerhardt
Chapter 7: Animal is to Kantianism as Jew Is to Fascism: Adorno's
Bestiary
Eduardo Mendieta
Part III. Speciesism and Ideologies of Domination
Chapter 8: Dialectic of Anthropocentrism
Aaron Bell
Chapter 9: Animal Repression: Speciesism as Pathology
Zipporah Weisberg
Chapter 10: Neuroscience (a Poem)
Susan Benston
Chapter 11: Everyday Rituals of the Master Race: Fascism,
Stratification, and the Fluidity of "Animal" Domination
Victoria Johnson
Part IV. Problems in Praxis
Chapter 12: Constructing Extremists, Rejecting Compassion:
Ideological Attacks on Animal Advocacy from Right and Left
John Sorenson
Chapter 13: "Green" Eggs and Ham? The Myth of Sustainable Meat and
the Danger of the Local Vasile Stanescu
Chapter 14: After MacKinnon: Sexual Inequality in the Animal
Movement
Carol Adams
Chapter 15: Sympathy and Interspecies Care: Toward a Unified Theory
of Eco- and Animal Liberation
Josephine Donovan
Note
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
John Sanbonmatsu is associate professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of The Postmodern Prince.
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.
*David Ingram, Loyola University, Chicago*
Sanbonmatsu has done the field of animal studies a great service by
bringing together this rewarding collection of critical
interventions. Just as feminist and phenomenological thinking
injected needed doses of existential and hermeneutic sensitivity
into the first wave of predominantly analytic animal ethics, so
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation now joins pragmatism in
projecting ethico-political engagement and socio-economic guidance
across the new wave of animal theory.
*Ralph R. Acampora, Hofstra University*
This is an engaging analysis of some of the key issues in
animal/human liberation, which makes it clear how connected the
oppression of animals is to the oppression of other humans. All of
the authors wonder how we can be sensitive to human suffering yet
blind to animal suffering. The truth is, we cannot, or must not any
longer. This book fulfills a long-awaited mandate demanding a deep
change of view. I commend it highly.
*Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author When Elephants Weep: The
Emotional Lives of Animals*
Contributors examine how our hidden, institutionalized violence to
animals, epitomized by industrial farming and laboratory
experimentation, coexists with spectacles of human-caused
suffering, degradation and destruction of animals in “visible but
not seen” forms, such as circuses and road kill....Critical Theory
and Animal Liberation looks not only at the obviously hidden
suffering of animals on industrial farms and in laboratories but at
the plight of animals who suffer and die openly in front of our
eyes through human causation.
*Karen Davis, President, United Poultry Concerns*
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation, edited by John Sanbonmatsu,
knits together a wide range of intersectional and interdisciplinary
voices from across the spectrum of Critical Animal Studies. Nuanced
and multifaceted, this text succeeds in applying critical
perspectives in political and social thought to the problem of our
relationship with other animals..../Critical Theory and Animal
Liberation/ is an invaluable text for scholars and students of a
variety of disciplinary backgrounds. In particular, this book is a
must-have for anyone studying or writing within the burgeoning
field of Critical Animal Studies. Perhaps the most compelling
achievement of this text is its instrumental role in opening up new
debates around critical, 'left' classical and contemporary Marxist
and posthumanist thought all while sidestepping the popular
currents in apolitical, mainstream animal studies. In addition,
this book offers a first ambitious step into an uncharted territory
-- moving away from the liberal ethics on which most animal
'rights' theory has, since its inception, been built.
*Journal for Critical Animal Studies*
Due to its exercise of deepening the critique of oppression and its
potential to inspire a vision of the social world made whole,
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is a highly recommended
read.
*Humanimalia*
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