Tyson, Sarah. “Crary, Alice and Lori Gruen, ‘Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory.’” New Books in Philosophy, Jul 20, 2022. Mp3, 01:02:51.
As we lose more individual animals and entire species to catastrophic climate change, habitat destruction, toxic dumping, and other human activities, it becomes increasingly difficult to register the full scope of the crisis. In Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory (Polity Press, 2022), Alice Crary and Lori Gruen reinvigorate the discourse of animal ethics with a critical theoretical approach that gives us new ways of thinking about what is owed to animals. By theorizing the links between human and non-human animal liberation, they offer ways of understanding why it can be so hard to see, hear, or feel the value and dignity of the animals right in front of us. Offering practices of interspecies solidarity, Crary and Gruen show us that we can transform the crisis we are in, but we must dismantle human supremacism to even connect with the need.
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In this episode of New Books in Philosophy, Sarah Tyson interviews Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, authors of Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory.
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