Critical Theory and Animal Liberation

John Sanbonmatsu is associate professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of The Postmodern Prince.

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.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Commodity Fetishism and Structural ViolenceChapter 1: Procrustean Solutions to Animal Identity and Welfare ProblemsKaren DavisChapter 2: Road Kill: Commodity Fetishism and Structural ViolenceDennis SoronChapter 3: Corporate Power, Ecological Crisis, and Animal RightsCarl BoggsPart II. Animals, Marxism, and the Frankfurt SchoolChapter 4: Humanism = Speciesism?: Marx on Humans and AnimalsTed BentonChapter 5: Reflections on the Prospects for a Non-Speciesist MarxismRenzo LlorenteChapter 6: Thinking With: Animals in Schopenhauer, Horkheimer, and AdornoChristina GerhardtChapter 7: Animal is to Kantianism as Jew Is to Fascism: Adorno's BestiaryEduardo MendietaPart III. Speciesism and Ideologies of DominationChapter 8: Dialectic of AnthropocentrismAaron BellChapter 9: Animal Repression: Speciesism as PathologyZipporah WeisbergChapter 10: Neuroscience (a Poem)Susan BenstonChapter 11: Everyday Rituals of the Master Race: Fascism, Stratification, and the Fluidity of "Animal" DominationVictoria JohnsonPart IV. Problems in PraxisChapter 12: Constructing Extremists, Rejecting Compassion: Ideological Attacks on Animal Advocacy from Right and LeftJohn SorensonChapter 13: "Green" Eggs and Ham? The Myth of Sustainable Meat and the Danger of the Local Vasile StanescuChapter 14: After MacKinnon: Sexual Inequality in the Animal MovementCarol AdamsChapter 15: Sympathy and Interspecies Care: Toward a Unified Theory of Eco- and Animal LiberationJosephine DonovanNoteIndexAbout the Editor and Contributors