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OverviewThere is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the harms that can be perpetrated against animals. The primary aim of this book is to show that the political implications of animal sentience go even further than this. For this book argues that sentience establishes a moral equality and a shared set of rights amongst those creatures who possess it. Crucially, this worth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like. It argues in favour of a ' sentientist cosmopolitan democracy': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist within shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore, the institutions of those communities should be democratic - that is to say, participative, deliberative and representative. Finally, those institutions should include dedicated representatives of non-human animals whose job should be to translate the interests of animals into deliberations over what is in the public good for their communities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alasdair Cochrane (Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Sheffield)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.30cm Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9780198789802ISBN 10: 0198789807 Pages: 174 Publication Date: 30 October 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Equality, Rights, and Sentientist Politics 3: Sentientist Democracy 4: Sentientist Cosmopolitan Democracy 5: Sovereignty for Animals? 6: Diversity and Toleration in a Sentientist Political Order 7: Securing Sentientist Politics 8: ConclusionReviewsan audacious work ... Cochrane meticulously disassembles the relations argument, the value of ecosystems argument, the unintended consequences objection, the zooification of nature/end of wilderness argument, and the overburdening cost argument - all with surgical precision. * Robert C. Jones, Environmental Values * Author InformationAlasdair Cochrane is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Sheffield. His main research interest is in 'animal politics' and his publications include An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (Palgrave, 2010) and Animal Rights without Liberation (Columbia, 2012). His other research interests engage with a broad range of topical ethical issues, most notably human rights, environmental ethics, bioethics, food ethics, and the ethics of imprisonment. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |