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Title: ZOOS
A PHILOSOPHICAL TOUR
By: Keekok Lee
Format: Hardback

List price: £129.99


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ISBN 10: 140398624X
ISBN 13: 9781403986245
Publisher: PALGRAVE USA
Pub. date: 22 November, 2005
Pages: 174
Description: This ontological treatment marks an approach to looking at animals in captivity. Engaging with the moral questions of zoo-keeping as well as the ontological, the author develops her own original hypothesis, centred around the concept of 'immuration' - defining this in contrast to domestication.
Synopsis: In this book, Keekok Lee asks the question, 'what is an animal, and how does our treatment of it within captivity affect its status as a being ?' This ontological treatment marks the first such approach in looking at animals in captivity. Engaging with the moral questions of zoo-keeping (is it morally justified to keep a wild animal in captivity?) as well as the ontological (what is it that we conserve in zoos after all? A wild animal or its shadow?), Lee develops her own original hypothesis, centred around the concept of 'immuration' - defining this in contrast to domestication - and thereby provides a unique addition to the growing body of work on animal ethics.
Illustrations: biography
Publication: US
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Returns: Returnable
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