Corporal Compassion by Ralph Acampora

Corporal Compassion by Ralph Acampora

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Summary

In doing so, he focuses on issues of being and value, and posits a felt nexus of bodily being, termed symphysis, to devise an interspecies ethos.

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Corporal Compassion by Ralph Acampora

New in Paper Acampora details an inter-species morality by examining the underlying nature of bodily experience as animate creatures and as human beings.
“In this intellectually adventurous and scrupulously argued book, Ralph Acampora takes it as his aim to vitalize the Anglo-American debate on the ethics of transhuman contacts with a bracing injection of modern European thought” - J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ralph R. Acampora is assistant professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. He is co-editor of A Nietzchean Bestiary and a member of the editorial board for Anthrozoös.

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ISBN 13 9780822963233
ISBN 10 082296323X
Title Corporal Compassion
Author Ralph Acampora
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
Year published 2014-11-28
Number of pages 224
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