States of Nature: Animality and the Polis by La Barbera, Christoper

States of Nature: Animality and the Polis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781433115677)

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States of Nature: Animality and the Polis by La Barbera, Christoper

States of Nature: Animality and the Polis

$86.95
States of Nature: Animality and the Polis by La Barbera, Christoper

States of Nature: Animality and the Polis

$86.95
Format: Hardcover
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States of Nature investigates the removal of the animal and its moral import from accounts of the human in political thought. By engaging some of the most foundational Western political texts (from Plato's Republic to Locke's Two Treatises to Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality), this work shows how the human and animal are intertwined in the creation of government, and in particular, in social contract theory. These political transitions are connected to transformations in the view of human nature that lead to the suppression of the animality of human life, as seen in Descartes' account of the metaphysics of man. States of Nature concludes by arguing for a new, vital, and relational approach toward animality as a foundation for our animal and environmental obligations.

Author: Christoper La Barbera
ISBN-10: 1433115670
ISBN-13: 9781433115677
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2012
Pages: 123
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
By Christoper La Barbera
By Christoper La Barbera
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Christopher La Barbera is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Colby-Sawyer College. La Barbera also serves as Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. He has research interests in social-political philosophy, bioethics, gender studies, and environmental philosophy. He received his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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