Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism

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Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism is written by Carlo Salzani and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031880285 (ISBN 10) and 9783031880285 (ISBN 13).

This open access book explores the role of imagination in animal ethics and its constitutive links to empathy/sympathy and anthropomorphism. The book argues for the constitutive role of imagination in ethical deliberation, but acknowledges that there exist important limits to its use. However, “limit” is here understood not merely negatively as restriction and insufficiency, but rather positively as “condition of possibility,” so what the book explores and analyses are the conditions for a positive and fruitful use of the imagination in ethics. The book uses as a “frame” the questions and issues raised in J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals to explore some central and salient themes.