Thinking-of-the-Animal-Other with Emmanuel Levinas
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad
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Thinking-of-the-Animal-Other with Emmanuel Levinas
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De Villiers, Jan-Harm
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Emmanuel Levinas
animal ethics animal rights theory |
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| Description |
This article situates the texts in which Emmanuel Levinas directly addresses questions of animality against the backdrop of his larger oeuvre and argues that, despite an explicit attempt to arrange a privileged ethical (dis)position for humans, Levinas' ethical logic opens onto a deeper conception of ethics without boundaries or a priori content. Juxtaposing Levinas' ethical subjectivity with the relational structure underlying the prominent models of animal rights, it proceeds to examine the implications of Levinas' ethics for a theory of animal rights. The article concludes that Levinas' theory is not logically consistent with a thematisation of the ethical claims of animals in the language of rights and that it is best utilised as a framework within which to deconstruct the inherent anthropocentric character of current models of animal rights.
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Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa
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2020-11-03
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer reviewed article |
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application/pdf
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https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/per/article/view/8974
10.17159/1727-3781/2020/v23i0a8974 |
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal; Vol 23 (2020); 1-18
1727-3781 |
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eng
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https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/per/article/view/8974/10605
https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/per/article/view/8974/10606 https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/per/article/view/8974/10612 |
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Copyright (c) 2020 Jan-Harm De Villiers
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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