From Welfarism to Sentiocracy. [A Review of Alasdair Cochrane’s „Should Animals Have Political Rights?” Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020] Cover Image

Od welfaryzmu do sentiokracji. [Recenzja książki Alasdaira Cochrane’a „Should Animals Have Political Rights?” Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020]
From Welfarism to Sentiocracy. [A Review of Alasdair Cochrane’s „Should Animals Have Political Rights?” Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020]

Author(s): Dariusz Gzyra
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Theory, Government/Political systems, Political economy, Book-Review, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: animal rights; political rights; political turn; welfarism; sentiocracy

Summary/Abstract: A book by British political philosopher and ethicist Alasdair Cochrane entitled Should Animals Have Political Rights? was published in 2019 by Polity Press in the Political Theory Today series. This book fits into the contemporary trend of theorizing the normative aspects of the relationship between man and other animals, which is sometimes referred to as the political turn. In his review, Dariusz Gzyra discusses the book’s structure and traces the trajectory of Cochrane’s thought, which evaluates – in the context of the postulate of animal protection and interspecies justice – the existing institutions, structures and political processes and proposes interesting changes and developments.

  • Issue Year: 2/2022
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 1-7
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish
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