{"product_id":"sentientist-politics-a-theory-of-global-inter-species-justice-9780198789802","title":"Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice","description":"There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the harms that can be\u003cbr\u003eperpetrated against animals. The primary aim of this book is to show that the political implications of animal sentience go even further than this. For this book argues that sentience establishes a moral equality and a shared set of rights amongst those creatures who possess it. Crucially, this\u003cbr\u003eworth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like. It argues in favour of a '\u003cem\u003e sentientist cosmopolitan democracy\u003c\/em\u003e': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist\u003cbr\u003ewithin shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore, the institutions of those communities should be \u003cem\u003e democratic\u003c\/em\u003e - that is to say, participative, deliberative and representative. Finally, those institutions should include \u003cem\u003e dedicated representatives of non-human animals\u003c\/em\u003e whose job should be to translate\u003cbr\u003ethe interests of animals into deliberations over what is in the public good for their communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alasdair Cochrane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198789802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlasdair Cochrane is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Sheffield. His main research interest is in 'animal politics' and his publications include \u003cem\u003e An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2010) and \u003cem\u003e Animal Rights without Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e (Columbia, 2012). His other research interests engage with a broad range of topical ethical issues, most notably human rights, environmental ethics, bioethics, food ethics, and the ethics of imprisonment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40078473756787,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":76.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3025ec01-2ca0-48a1-9769-6ca10f1989b6.jpg?v=1652191189","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/sentientist-politics-a-theory-of-global-inter-species-justice-9780198789802","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}