Books of Animals (Philosophy)

  • Why Look at Animals?
    Why Look at Animals?
    By John Berger

    This book explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle.

  • The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
    The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
    By Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference

    The essays in this collection were first delivered as presentations at the Sixteenth Annual ACMRS Conference on 'Humanity and the Natural World in the Middle Ages and Renaissance' in February, 2010, at Arizona State University.

  • The Mark of the Beast: Animality and Human Oppression
    The Mark of the Beast: Animality and Human Oppression
    By Mark S. Roberts

    Roberts provides a general account of the theoretical division between humans and animals begun largely in the work of Aristotle and continued in that of Descartes and Kant.

  • Pets, People, and Pragmatism
    By Erin McKenna

    Pragmatism is used to explore human beings' relationships with horses, dogs, and cats.

  • Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights

    This study pursues the investigation Fontenay began in her magnum opus, 'The Silence of the Beasts: Philosophy Confronts Animality' with a series of essays of somewhat more topical reach.