A favourable review of Paolo Cavalieri’s Death of the Animal has been posted to NDPR. The review agrees with my assessment that the format of the dialogue itself is an unmitigated disaster – Xenophon and Plato were great writers; Cavalieri is not. I made a short post about the book a while back, which is found here.
OUP has kindly sent me a copy of Andrew Linzey’s new book, Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology and Practical Ethics, which I am looking forward to reading. Linzey is the leading advocate of animal rights in the Christian tradition and is single-handedly responsible for what is now called “animal theology.”
And some forthcoming titles of interest: Kelly Oliver’s Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human should be published soon by Columbia, as should the forthcoming Gary Francione and Robert Garner book on regulation versus abolition; Minnesota UP recently published Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times and will soon publish Cary Wolfe’s What is Posthumanism? in December.
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I wonder how the Cary Wolfe book will be?
Also, I have never read Linzey, so you should let all know how the book is.
Have you read the Shukin text? I picked up when it first came out and read the first few chapters, then got distracted haven’t finished it yet.
I haven’t had a chance to look at Shukin yet, unfortunately. How was what you read?
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