Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism by Carlo Salzani

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This open access book explores the role of imagination in animal ethics and its constitutive links to empathy/sympathy and anthropomorphism.

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Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism by Carlo Salzani

This open access book explores the role of imagination in animal ethics and its constitutive links to empathy/sympathy and anthropomorphism. The book argues for the constitutive role of imagination in ethical deliberation, but acknowledges that there exist important limits to its use. However, “limit” is here understood not merely negatively as restriction and insufficiency, but rather positively as “condition of possibility,” so what the book explores and analyses are the conditions for a positive and fruitful use of the imagination in ethics. The book uses as a “frame” the questions and issues raised in J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals to explore some central and salient themes.

Salzani, Carlo: - Carlo Salzani was most recently Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University, Australia. He is author of Constellations of Readings: Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality (Peter Lang, 2009) and editor with Brendan Moran of Philosophy and Kafka (Lexington, 2013).
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ISBN 13 9783031880278
ISBN 10 3031880277
Title Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism
Author Carlo Salzani
Series The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
Year published 2025-05-06
Number of pages 245
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