Eat This Book: A Carnivore's Manifesto by Dominique Lestel (English) Hardcover B

Description: Eat This Book by Dominique Lestel, Gary Steiner A provocative defense of meat eating as an affirmation of our vital relation and debt to animals. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. Lestel skillfully synthesizes Western philosophical views on the moral status of animals and holistic cosmologies that recognize human-animal reciprocity. He shows that the carnivores position is more coherently ethical than vegetarianism, which isolates humans from the world by treating cruelty, violence, and conflicting interests as phenomena outside of life. Describing how meat eaters assume completely-which is to say, metabolically-their animal status, Lestel opens our eyes to the vital relation between carnivores and animals and carnivores genuine appreciation of animals life-sustaining flesh. He vehemently condemns factory farming and the terrible footprint of industrial meat eating. His goal is to recreate a kinship between humans and animals that reminds us of what it means to be tied to the world. Author Biography Dominique Lestel is an associate professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. He is a founding member and part of the Archives Husserl Research Center and, with Thierry Bardini, is coauthor of Journey to the End of the Species. Gary Steiner is professor of philosophy at Bucknell University. He is the author of Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism; Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy; and Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship. Table of Contents Translators Preface A Sort of Aperitif Appetizer: How Does One Recognize an Ethical Vegetarian? Hors dOeuvre: A Short History of Vegetarian Practices First Course: Some (Good) Reasons Not to Become an Ethical Vegetarian Second Course: The Ethics of the Carnivore A Sort of Dessert Postface Notes Bibliography Review Witty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, Eat This Book is a pure joy to read. -- Brett Buchanan, Laurentian University Eat This Book challenges ethical vegetarians with a variety of counterarguments to consider. Though some of the rhetoric may prove indigestible, such skepticism ultimately feeds the philosophic debate on diet. -- Ralph R. Acampora, Hofstra University Promotional If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them, and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. Review Quote Witty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, Eat This Book is a pure joy to read. Promotional "Headline" If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them, and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. Details ISBN0231172966 Author Gary Steiner Short Title EAT THIS BK Publisher Columbia University Press Language English Translator Gary Steiner ISBN-10 0231172966 ISBN-13 9780231172967 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2016 Pages 160 Imprint Columbia University Press Subtitle A Carnivores Manifesto Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2016-03-08 UK Release Date 2016-03-08 Translated from French AU Release Date 2016-03-08 NZ Release Date 2016-03-08 US Release Date 2016-03-08 DEWEY 179.3 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161834731;

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