In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requir

By comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert finds in the domestication of animals, wh

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This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition's assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It makes a case for the full and dir