Knowing Life : The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies (Hardcover)

Introduction: From the Limits of Intelligibility to Perceptive Rearrangements??SECTION I: LIVING CONCEPTS??Praxis A: Threshold Concepts for Multispecies Communication??1. Precursor to Knowledge: Semiosis as Ground of Multispecies Morality??2. Weaving Life and Death Back Together: On Multispecies Mortality??3. Voracious Secularism: Emotional Habitus and the Desire for Knowledge in Animal Experimentation??4. Synchronicities of the Living and the Non-Living??5. Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, and African Social Epistemology??SECTION II: GROWING PERCEPTIONS??Praxis B: The Obligations of Our Ecological Relations: A Challenge for Land Acknowledgments??6. Decolonizing Listening: From Grammars of Lo Inaudito to Expansive Onto-Epistemic Thresholds??7. Tree of Life-Death: On the Vegetal Wisdom of Life in the Book of Zohar? 8.?Expansive Modes of Multispecies Knowing toward Nonviolence in the Early Jain Canon??9. Multispecies Kinship and Kindness: Knowing Life through Animist Etiquette and Ethics??SECTION III: FREEING SUBJECTIVITIES??Praxis C: Knowing Animals in the Anthropocene through Animal Photojournalism??10.? Animals, Sex, and Gender: Understanding Animals in Animal Welfare Practice??11. Unknown Patterns of Intersubjectivity: Zhuangzi, the Seabird and the Happy Fish??12. Genre of the Animal: Beyond Racial Capitalist Consumption??13. The Forbidden Turn: Decentering Modern Subjectivity by Integrating Animal and Mystic Affects??14.? Fa?r al-D?n al-R?z?’s Multispecies Epistemology??SECTION IV: EXPERIMENTAL RESPONSES??Praxis D: Making Music with Mysterious Species in Ponds??15.? A Multispecies Cosmovision: Knowing Nonhumans Beyond the Cognitive Imaginary in Buddhist Thought and Practice??16.? Love as a Moral Method: Developing “Attentive Platonic Love” toward Nonhuman Animals??17.? Transspecies Selves: Rethinking Species Being and the Boundaries of the Human??18.? Knowing Multiply, Unexpectedly, Imaginatively: Decolonizing Knowledge with Gloria Anzaldua??