If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connection with Animals Tapa dura - 2004

Nearly everyone who cares about them believes that dogs and cats have a sense of self that renders them unique. Traditional science and philosophy declare such notions about our pets to be irrational and anthropomorphic. Animals, they say, have only the crudest form of thought and no sense of self at all. Leslie Irvine's If You Tame Me challenges these entrenched views by demonstrating that our experience of animals and their behavior tells a different story.Dogs and cats have been significant elements in human history and valued members of our households for centuries. Why do we regard these companions as having distinct personalities and as being irreplaceable? Leslie Irvine looks closely at how people form "connections" with dogs and cats available in adoption shelters and reflects on her own relationships with animals. If You Tame Me makes a persuasive case for the existence of a sense of self in companion animals and calls upon us to reconsider our rights and obligations regarding the non-human creatures in our lives.

Detalles

• Título If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connection with Animals
• Autor Leslie Irvine; Foreword by Marc Bekoff
• Encuadernación Tapa dura
• Páginas 223
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Temple University Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
• Fecha de publicación March 2004
• Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
• ISBN 9781592132409 / 1592132405
• Peso 1.08 libras (0.49 kg)
• Dimensiones 9.22 x 6.02 x 0.88 pulgadas (23.42 x 15.29 x 2.24 cm)
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2003070299
• Dewey Decimal Code 636.708