Critical Theory and Animal Liberation

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Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to look at the human relationship with animals from the critical or 'left' tradition in political and social thought. The contributions in this volume highlight connections between our everyday treatment of animals and other forms of oppression, violence, and domination. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of 'animal rights,' the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a political question of the first order. Introduction 1 Part I: Commodity Fetishism and Structural Violence 1 Karen Davis, Procrustean Solutions to Animal Identity and Welfare Problems 35 2 Dennis Soron, Road Kill: Commodity Fetishism and Structural Violence 55 3 Carl Boggs, Corporate Power, Ecological Crisis, and Animal Rights 71 Part II: Animals, Marxism, and the Frankfurt School 4 Ted Benton, Humanism = Speciesism?: Marx on Humans and Animals 99 5 Renzo Llorente, Reflections on the Prospects for a Non-Speciesist Marxism 121 6 Christina Gerhardt, Thinking With: Animals in Schopenhauer, Horkheimer, and Adorno 137 7 Eduardo Mendieta, Animal Is to Kantianism as Jew Is to Fascism: Adorno’s Bestiary 147 Table of Contents viii Table of Contents Part III: Speciesism and Ideologies of Domination 8 Aaron Bell, The Dialectic of Anthropocentrism 163 9 Zipporah Weisberg, Animal Repression: Speciesism as Pathology 177 10 Susan Benston, Neuroscience (a Poem) 195 11 Victoria Johnson, Everyday Rituals of the Master Race: Fascism, Stratification, and the Fluidity of “Animal” Domination 203 Part IV: Problems in Praxis 12 John Sorenson, Constructing Extremists, Rejecting Compassion: Ideological Attacks on Animal Advocacy from Right and Left 219 13 Vasile Stănescu, “Green” Eggs and Ham?: The Myth of Sustainable Meat and the Danger of the Local 239 14 Carol J. Adams, After MacKinnon: Sexual Inequality in the Animal Movement 257 15 Josephine Donovan, Sympathy and Interspecies Care: Toward a Unified Theory of Eco- and Animal Liberation 277 Notes 295 Index 353