While writing a chapter on contemporary animal rights for an ethics book, philosophy professor James Brusseau began asking how the animal studies could reflect back to reveal human truths. Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity pursues that question as it ranges from an accessible look at today’s philosophy of animal ethics, to an investigation of what we can learn about ourselves in the midst of thinking about animals.
Set against the backdrop of the wine, sex, love, and blood soaked running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, this short and compelling narrative nonfiction explores how animals – human and nonhuman – exist together.
Table of Content
1 WHAT ARE DIGNITY AND PLEASURE? 3
What is Dignity?
Pleasures in Pamplona
Dignity or Pleasure?
2 DIGNITY AND ANIMAL RIGHTS 14
Which Animals Have Dignity, and Therefore Rights?
Supporting Dignity: The Human/Animal Bind
Another Version of the Human/Animal Bind
Dignity and Those Animals Closest to Us
3 PLEASURE AND ANIMAL RIGHTS 27
The Pleasure and Pain Approach to Ethics
The Pleasure and Pain Approach to Animal Ethics
Pleasure and the Bullfight
Pleasure and Those Animals Closest to Us
4 VULGARITY 39
Two Kinds of Vulgarity
Vulgarity, the Bullfight, Animal Rights
Citations 50
Image Credits 52
About the Author 56
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