Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body

220 Pages·2006·1.404 MB·English

by  Ralph R. Acampora

CORPORAL COMPASSION

CORPOR AL
COMPASSION
Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body
RALPH R. ACAMPORA
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
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Dedicated
to the memory of Czar and Lucifer
and
for the weal of the nameless.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
  ()
Its [love’s] luminous delight arises from our visceral recognition
of the mutual self-constitution we share with all sentient beings.
  ()
. . . foregrounding the vital experience of an encounter with an-
other kind of [animal] being leads us to feel what it might mean
to renounce the authority of the reigning [humanist] social order
altogether.
  ()

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Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Somaesthetics and Animal Ethics xiii
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Interspecies Ethics and Phenomenology of Body:
Precursors and Pathways 
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Flesh-and-Blood Being-in-a-World: Toward a Transpecific
Ontology of Somatic Society 

Appreciation of Animal Nature under the Aspect of Bodiment 

Ethosand Leib:“Symphysics” of Transpecific Morality 

Body Bioethics in Realms of the Carnal and the Carceral 
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Contexts and Promise of Corporal Compassion 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 