Category: Animal Studies

October 29, 2009

Zoographies, Deconstruction, and Vegetarianism

We are following up on yesterday’s post on animal studies with a look at the group blog The Inhumanities, which just completed its discussion of Matthew Calarco’s Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida. Cary Wolfe, a...

October 28, 2009

Animal Studies round-up

The Chronicle Review recently featured a series of articles exploring the rise of animal studies in the academy. Articles include Creature Consciousness, which explores some of the theoretical and philosophical foundations of animal studies as well as the line that...

May 28, 2009

Gary Steiner on His Book Animals and the Moral Community

The Web site Rorotoko has a cover interview/post with Gary Steiner in which he discusses his recent book Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship. Steiner’s post describes his book’s exploration and critique of the Western...

May 22, 2009

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews on Philosophy and Animal Life

In a recent review for the online journal Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Gerald Bruns considers how two recent philosophy books explore novelist J. M. Coetzee’s philosophical views on animals. One of the books discussed by Bruns is Philosophy and Animal...

December 11, 2008

Mutts Like Us . . . A Post by Frances Bartkowski

This still young century—maybe only now just beginning—calls us all into relations of obligation and care. This is our object lesson, among others, whether to follow our curiosity and desire—to kiss, or to be led by our lesser selves toward...

July 10, 2008

Gary Francione on Vegan Freak, Part II

This ran a few days ago but we forgot to mention that the second part of Gary Francione’s interview with Vegan Freak is now available. (Click here for the first part.) The book has received a lot of notice from...

June 25, 2008

Gary Francione on "Vegan Freak"

With the recent release of some very noteworthy titles in animal studies as well as our special 50% off sale, we’ve been writing quite a bit about our books in the field. Today, we point you to Gary Francione’s recent...

June 18, 2008

Interview with Gary Francione, author of Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

Gary Francione was the first academic to teach animal rights in a U.S. law school and has since become a central figure in the animal rights movement. In this interview he discusses his new book, Animals as Persons: Essays on...

June 17, 2008

Sale on Animal Studies Titles

We’ve had such a great response to the post by Wendy Lochner, editor of the Press’s Animal Studies list, that we are offering a 50% discount on all animal studies titles, including works by Gary Francione, Stanley Cavell, James Rachels,...

June 4, 2008

Religion and Other Animals: An Essay from Paul Waldau

Over the next few weeks we hope to have a series of posts highlighting titles from our Animal Studies list. Yesterday, the list’s editor Wendy Lochner wrote about her interest in the field and in recent days we’ve had three...

June 3, 2008

Why Animal Studies Now?: A Short Personal Note from the Editor

The following post is by Wendy Lochner, senior executive editor for Religion, Philosophy, and Animal Studies Why animal studies now? Like many people who are interested in the fate of animals and of the Earth, I came to this issue...