Philosophy and the Politics of Animal Liberation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Paola Cavalieri

   Pages 1-13

3. Animal Liberation: A Political Perspective

   • Paola Cavalieri

   Pages 15-43

4. Reorienting Strategies for Animal Justice

   • Matthew Calarco

   Pages 45-69

5. Make It So: Envisioning a Zoopolitical Revolution

   • Sue Donaldson, Will Kymlicka

   Pages 71-116

6. The Problem of Akrasia: Moral Cultivation and Socio-Political Resistance

   • Elisa Aaltola

   Pages 117-147

7. Animal Subjects and the Logic of Human Domination

   • Brian Luke

   Pages 149-186

8. Counter-Conduct and Truce

   • Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

   Pages 187-237

9. Bringing the State into Animal Rights Politics

   • Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker

   Pages 239-272

10. Back Matter

    Pages 273-282

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This edited collection testifies to the fact that the animal liberation movement is now entering its political phase, after a period dominated by ethical approaches that undermined the paradigm of human supremacy and demanded justice for nonhuman beings. The contributors of this book collectively confront and take on questions of social transformation, guided by the idea that philosophy has an important role to play even at such a new level. They start from such diverse perspectives as critical theory, left liberalism, and biopolitical thought. The result is an articulated picture in which, beyond any principled divergence, it is possible to detect the emergence of a relevant set of shared political preoccupations. This exploration of those offers fresh theoretical insights and suggestions for praxis.

• Philosophy
• politics
• animal liberation
• strategy
• movement
• Zoopolitical
• philosophy

• Milano, Italy

  Paola Cavalieri

Paola Cavalieri is the founder and former editor of the international philosophy journal Etica & Animali. She is the author of The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights (2004) and of The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue (2009). She co-edited, with Peter Singer, the award-winning book The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity (1994).

Policies and ethics