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Press Release: Four New Books Published on Animal Ethics
14th August 2024
Four new books on animal ethics have been added to the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series totalling more than forty volumes in the series.
“Interest in animal ethics is booming among academics,” claims Professor Andrew Linzey, co-editor of the book series. “We have created a new library for students and scholars, as well as providing resources for emerging courses in animal studies. The series is multidisciplinary and international – and all with an ethical focus.”
The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics series explores the challenges that animal ethics poses, both conceptually and practically, to traditional understandings of human-animal relations.
The new books are:
The Case for the Legal Protection of Animals
by Kimberly C. Moore
This book presents the case for legal protection for animals based on humanity’s shared interests and destinies with the animal kingdom.
For full information see: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46065-4
Animals as Experiencing Entities
edited by Michael J. Glover, Les Mitchell
This volume explores the experiences of those with little or no power—usually, although not exclusively, animals. A fascinating collection of pioneering essays on the much ignored issue of animal subjectivity.
For full information see: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46456-0
The Suffering Animal
by Simone Ghelli
This book provides a critical and innovative reassessment of the contemporary debate on the human-animal relationship.
For full information see: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-32982-1
Animals, Ethics, and Language
by Rebekah Humphreys
This book maps the central debates surrounding anthropomorphism in relation to our descriptions of animals, their lives, animal mentality, and meaningful communication in the nonhuman world.
For full information see: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-32080-4
NOTES FOR EDITORS:
Series co-editor Dr Clair Linzey, and the authors, are available for interview, comment and articles.
PDF copies of the book are available for review.
Cover images of the books can be downloaded here:
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The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics is an independent centre devoted to pioneering ethical perspectives on animals through research, teaching, and publication. For full information see www.oxfordanimalethics.com
The Revd Professor Andrew Linzey is Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He has written or edited more than 40 books, including Why Animal Suffering Matters (2009) and Animal Theologians (2023), both published by Oxford University Press. He has been a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford for 28 years.
Dr Clair Linzey is the Research Fellow in Animal Ethics at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, as well as being Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is also the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation. She is the author of Developing Animal Theology (Routledge, 2021) and An Ethical Critique of Fur Factory Farming (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).