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Corporal Compassion : Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body (Paperback)
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New in Paper Acampora details an inter-species morality by examining the underlying nature of bodily experience as animate creatures and as human beings. Most approaches to animal ethics ground the moral standing of nonhumans in some appeal to their capacities for intelligent autonomy or mental sentience. Corporal Compassion emphasizes the phenomenal and somatic commonality of living beings; a philosophy of body that seeks to displace any notion of anthropomorphic empathy in viewing the moral experiences of nonhuman living beings. Ralph R. Acampora employs phenomenology hermeneutics existentialism and deconstruction to connect and contest analytic treatments of animal rights and liberation theory. 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. Acampora uses this broad-based bioethic to engage in dialogue with other strains of environmental ethics and ecophilosophy. Corporal Compassion examines the practical applications of the somatic ethos in contexts such as laboratory experimentation and zoological exhibition and challenges practitioners to move past recent reforms and look to a future beyond exploitation or total noninterference--a posthumanist culture that advocates caring in a participatory approach.
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