{"product_id":"sentientist-politics-alasdair-cochrane-9780198789802","title":"Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice","description":"There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the harms that can be perpetrated against animals. The primary aim of this book is to show that the political implications of animal sentience go even further than this. For this book argues that sentience establishes a moral equality and a shared set of rights amongst those creatures who possess it. Crucially, this worth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like. It argues in favour of a '\u003cem\u003e sentientist cosmopolitan democracy\u003c\/em\u003e': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist within shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore, the institutions of those communities should be \u003cem\u003e democratic\u003c\/em\u003e - that is to say, participative, deliberative and representative. Finally, those institutions should include \u003cem\u003e dedicated representatives of non-human animals\u003c\/em\u003e whose job should be to translate the interests of animals into deliberations over what is in the public good for their communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alasdair Cochrane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198789807\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198789802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Alasdair Cochrane","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054688039167,"sku":"9780198789802","price":97.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_400be875-905f-4cf6-968f-02cea925c8fc.jpg?v=1685031406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sentientist-politics-alasdair-cochrane-9780198789802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}