14/11/2024 : Which all-subjected-principle for animals? (P. Niesen)

The “political turn” in human-animal-studies has been an inspiration to many authors working in the field, but, philosophically and politically speaking, a halfway house. Its main proponents have suggested animals should be awarded membership rights, but have at the same time defended a moral and non-relational understanding of basic animal rights (Donaldson/Kymlicka 2011, Cochrane 2018, Ladwig 2020). A more thorough-going relational approach for at least those animals that are inextricably ...