Social & political philosophy (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and practices that they do not objectify and exploit nature and natural existents like Western ethics does. This book investigates whether this is correct and what kind of status is rese...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Social Work and Animals represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It advances cogent and detailed arguments for the inclusion of animals within social work's moral framework, arguments that hav...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book is the first in-depth study of the representation of animals on television. It explores the variety of ways animals are represented in audio-visual media, including wildlife documentaries and children’s animated series, and the consequences...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book focuses on multiculturalism, racism and the interests of nonhuman animals. Each are, in their own right, rapidly growing and controversial fields of enquiry, but how do multiculturalism and racism intersect with the debate concerning animal...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This edited collection of eight original essays pursues the aim of bringing the spotlight back on Anton Marty. It does so by having leading figures in the contemporary debate confront themselves with Marty’s most significative contributions, which sp...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:John Rawls was the most influential political thinker of the twentieth century. This book applies his theory of justice to four perennial matters of concern that remain contested in the twenty-first century. Drawing surprising implications, this book...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Dieses Buch handelt von der gleichberechtigten Teilhabe aller Bürgerinnen und Bürger an der Arbeitswelt. Dabei werden aktuelle Entwicklungen in Recht und Praxis berücksichtigt. Aktuelle Themen der Inklusionsforschung kommen zur Sprache, wie die Bedeu...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This edited volume focuses on what Hannah Arendt famously called “the raison d’être of politics”: freedom. The unique collection of essays clarifies her flagship idea of political freedom in relation to other key Arendtian themes such as liberation, ...