You Don’t Know What Pain Is: Affect, the Lifeworld, and Animal Ethics
Affect theory is a subfield that encourages us to think about how we interact with each other and the world along registers that are not reducible to language. This has suggested to some scholars that affect theory can also be used to better understand the experience of animals. This article explore...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-29 |
RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics VA Philosophy |
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animal ethics
B Affect B Phenomenology B Ethics B Study & teaching B Animals B critical animal studies B Pain B animal religion B RELIGIOUS behaviors B Toronto Pig Save B Animals Religious aspects B Kendrick Lamar |
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Summary: | Affect theory is a subfield that encourages us to think about how we interact with each other and the world along registers that are not reducible to language. This has suggested to some scholars that affect theory can also be used to better understand the experience of animals. This article explores a merger between affect theory, animal studies and the lifeworld tradition of phenomenology. The upshot of this is a way of seeing how animals, like humans, have rich religious worlds that are shaped by pre-linguistic textures of affect. This perspective indicates that animals can be thrown into a state of trauma by being deprived of these lifeworlds. In light of this, the article considers the ethical implications of the modern factory farm system, particularly the practice of mass confinement. |
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ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946816674146 |