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Animal Ethics and the Nonconformist Conscience

Animal Ethics and the Nonconformist Conscience

Philip J. Sampson

 

Verlag Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

ISBN 9783319964065 , 169 Seiten

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Animal Ethics and the Nonconformist Conscience


 

Series Editors’ Preface

6

Preface

8

Contents

12

Chapter 1 Speaking of Animals

13

Resources and Meanings

14

Strategies of Segregation

15

Language and Change

18

Ethical Debate, Modernity and Religion

19

Nonconformity and the ‘Animal Turn’

20

Bibliography

22

Chapter 2 Animals, Language and Ethics

24

Changing Animals into Food

25

Changing Animals into Friends

27

Enlightenment, Darwinism and Secular Change

28

Secular World View

28

The Demise of Dominion Thought

29

The Structure of Dominion Thought

30

The Image of God

30

Dominion Over the Creatures

32

The Enlightenment Metanarrative

34

Bibliography

35

Chapter 3 A Modern Story of Animal Advocacy

38

Modern Estrangements

39

Animals and Humans

40

Accounting for Change

41

Secularisation

41

Humanitarianism

43

Rights

44

Darwinism

45

Postmodern Turn

47

Social Modernity and Change

48

Animal Commodities

48

Animal Industries

50

Animal Science

51

Technologies of the Body

52

A Lost Language of Animal Advocacy

52

Bibliography

53

Chapter 4 Innovation and Religious Discourses

56

Rediscovering Religious Discourse

57

Environmental Evidence

58

The Christian Heritage of the West

60

Radical Ways of Talking

61

Nonconformists and Animal Advocacy

63

Neglect and Disparagement

67

The Nonconformist Conscience

68

Creation, Fall, Redemption

69

Bibliography

70

Chapter 5 Creation: What on Earth Are Animals for?

73

The Consensus Narrative

73

Nonconformists and Dominion

74

Anthropocentrism in the Consensus Account

75

Nonconformists and Anthropocentrism

76

The End of the World

78

The Existence of Beasts

80

An Ontology of Care

80

The Harmony of Existence

82

The Experience of Beasts

84

The Soul of a Beast

85

Animal’s Rights

86

Animal-Human Relationships

87

Limited Lordship and Delegate Dominion

88

Nonconformist Dominion and Reform

90

Revising Discourses of Use

91

Bibliography

91

Chapter 6 Fall: Animal Suffering and Human Agency

95

The ‘Shock and Ruin of the World’ (Calvin 1551 [1851], 11.6)

95

Animal Suffering

96

A ‘Fiend Incarnate’

97

Riotous Eaters of Flesh (Prov. 23.20)

98

‘It Was Sin That Made Us Butchers’

99

‘Discord Among the Creatures of God’

100

Creatures Grieve to Serve Us

101

‘Cry to God for Revenge’

101

Human Duties and the Nonconformist Conscience

104

‘Deem It No Gloire to Swell in Tyranny’ (Sidney 1580 [1999], 225)

104

Horrid Cruelty

106

That Fearful Brand

107

Radical Animal Advocacy

109

Bibliography

109

Chapter 7 Redemption: Hope, Love and Restoration

113

A Soteriological Language

114

The Restoration of Animals

115

The Nonconformist Conscience

116

Private Transformation, Public Face

116

Hope and Reconciliation

119

God’s Tenderness

120

The Law of Tenderness

122

Eden’s Tenderness Restored

123

Animal Souls

124

The Persistence of Language

126

Bibliography

127

Chapter 8 A Persistent Language

130

The Persistence of Discourse

131

Traces and Meanings

132

Lords, not Tyrants

134

Rights and Tyranny

135

The Sacrifice of the Higher for the Lower

138

Postmodern Archeology

139

Bibliography

140

Chapter 9 Nonconformist Bricolage

142

The Postmodern Turn

142

Ethical Bricolage

144

Resources, Fragments, Meanings

145

Fragments Sustain and Nourish

145

Fragments Offer Specific Insights

148

All Creatures in Their Kind

148

Images of Sacrifice

149

Creation

151

Fall

152

Redemption

153

Fragments Unexpectedly Integrate

154

The Nonconformist Gaze

156

Discomfort of the Gaze

158

The Restoration of the World

159

Bibliography

160

Index

164