Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics

by Anna Peterson and Anna L. Peterson

Book Overview

For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting the first examination of animals' place in popular and scholarly thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231162278
• ISBN13: 9780231162272
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"