While many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the pri

Animals are conscious beings that form their own perspective regarding the lifeworlds in which they exist, and according to which they act in relation to their

While many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the pri

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