Who speaks for the animals? Heidegger and the question of animal welfare

Environmental Ethics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-270

  Schalow, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

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EID: 0009610273     PISSN: 01634275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics200022317     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. J. Baird Callicott, "Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair," in Morality and Moral Controversies, ed. John Arthur (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993), pp. 237-52.
2. See Tom Regan, The Thee Generation (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990), pp. 1-4, 22.
3. See Mark Sagoff's critique of Peter Singer's thesis of "equal consideration" in "Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce," Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 22, no. 2 (1984): 297-98.
4. See Simon Glendinning, "Heidegger and the Question of Animality," International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 4, no. 1 (March 1996): 75-82. Also see Michael E. Zimmerman, "Ontical Craving Versus Ontological Desire," in From Phenomenology to Thought: Errancy and Desire, ed. B. E. Babich (Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), pp. 501-23. Although initially Zimmerman emphasized the ecological implications of Heidegger's thought, over time he became more skeptical about the import of hermeneutical phenomenology for deep ecology.
5. See Simon Glendinning, "Heidegger and the Question of Animality," International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 4, no. 1 (March 1996): 75-82. Also see Michael E. Zimmerman, "Ontical Craving Versus Ontological Desire," in From Phenomenology to Thought: Errancy and Desire, ed. B. E. Babich (Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), pp. 501-23. Although initially Zimmerman emphasized the ecological implications of Heidegger's thought, over time he became more skeptical about the import of hermeneutical phenomenology for deep ecology.
6. George S. Cave, "Animals, Heidegger, and the Right to Life," Environmental Ethics 4(1982): 249-54.
7. Michael E. Zimmerman, Contesting Earth's Future (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 5-9. "Having once read Heidegger's thought as partly compatible with deep ecology, I now ask whether deep ecology in particular and radical ecology in general are in fact compatible with antimodernism" (p. 6).
8. See Martin Heidegger, "Letter on Humanism," trans. J. Glenn Gray and Frank Capuzzi, in Basic Writings, ed. D. F. Krell (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), pp. 196-205. Also see John van Buren, "Critical Environmental Ethics," in Environmental Ethics 17 (1995): 259-75.
9. See Martin Heidegger, "Letter on Humanism," trans. J. Glenn Gray and Frank Capuzzi, in Basic Writings, ed. D. F. Krell (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), pp. 196-205. Also see John van Buren, "Critical Environmental Ethics," in Environmental Ethics 17 (1995): 259-75.
10. Martin Heidegger, "Building, Dwelling, Thinking," in Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971), p. 154 . Heidegger writes: "Accordingly, spaces receive their being from locations not from 'space.'" Cave's description of how a cat becomes upset with the rearrangement of furniture in the house provides a good example of how spatiality in the Heideggerian sense determines the concernful involvement of animals. Though Cave restricts his analysis to the early Heidegger, his point is well taken. "Animals, Heidegger, and the Right to Life," p. 253.
11. Martin Heidegger, "Building, Dwelling, Thinking," in Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971), p. 154 . Heidegger writes: "Accordingly, spaces receive their being from locations not from 'space.'" Cave's description of how a cat becomes upset with the rearrangement of furniture in the house provides a good example of how spatiality in the Heideggerian sense determines the concernful involvement of animals. Though Cave restricts his analysis to the early Heidegger, his point is well taken. "Animals, Heidegger, and the Right to Life," p. 253.
12. See David Farrell Krell, Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992), pp. 44-50.
13. Zimmerman, "Ontical Craving Versus Ontological Desire," pp. 501-23.
14. Martin Heidegger, Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik, GA 29/30 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1983), pp. 369-80; idem, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, trans. William McNeill and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 254-61.
15. Martin Heidegger, Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik, GA 29/30 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1983), pp. 369-80; idem, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, trans. William McNeill and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 254-61.
16. Martin Heidegger, Schelling's Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom, trans. Joan Stambaugh (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1985), p. 148.
17. Martin Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking, trans. John Anderson and E. Hans Freund (New York: Harper and Row, 1966), pp. 588-61.
18. Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter(New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1971), pp. 205-210. Also see Bruce Foltz, Inhabiting the Earth (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: 1995), pp. 4-17.
19. Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter(New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1971), pp. 205-210. Also see Bruce Foltz, Inhabiting the Earth (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: 1995), pp. 4-17.
20. Michael E. Zimmerman, Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 145-46.
21. John Rodman, "Animal Justice: The Counter-Revolution in Natural Right and Law," Inquiry 22, no. 2 (Summer 1979): 3-22.
22. Carl Cohen, "The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research," in Intervention and Reflection, ed. Ronald Munson, 5th ed. (Los Angeles: Wadsworth, 1996), pp. 405-12.
23. Peter Singer, "All Animals are Equal," in Morality and Moral Controversies, pp. 227-35. For a similar argument from a Heideggerian perspective, see Cave, "Animals, Heidegger, and the Right to Life," pp. 249-54. This essay was written, of course, prior to the publication of Heidegger's Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik.
24. Peter Singer, "All Animals are Equal," in Morality and Moral Controversies, pp. 227-35. For a similar argument from a Heideggerian perspective, see Cave, "Animals, Heidegger, and the Right to Life," pp. 249-54. This essay was written, of course, prior to the publication of Heidegger's Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik.
25. Peter Singer, "All Animals are Equal," in Morality and Moral Controversies, pp. 227-35. For a similar argument from a Heideggerian perspective, see Cave, "Animals, Heidegger, and the Right to Life," pp. 249-54. This essay was written, of course, prior to the publication of Heidegger's Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik.
26. Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life (New York: Harper and Row, 1966), p. 284.
27. Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, ed. Ronald Biener (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), p. 27.
28. Glendinning, "Heidegger and the Question of Animality," pp. 75-82.
29. Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, pp. 188-92.
30. Ibid., pp. 209-10.
31. John Llewelyn, The Middle-Voice of Ecological Conscience (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), pp. 9-25.
32. See Zimmerman, Contesting Earth's Future, p. 2.
33. Martin Heidegger, The End of Philosophy, trans. Joan Stambaugh (New York: Harper and Row, 1973), p. 109 (emphasis added). See Frank Schalow, Language and Deed: Rediscovering Politics through Heidegger's Encounter with German Idealism (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1998), pp. 200-03.
34. Martin Heidegger, The End of Philosophy, trans. Joan Stambaugh (New York: Harper and Row, 1973), p. 109 (emphasis added). See Frank Schalow, Language and Deed: Rediscovering Politics through Heidegger's Encounter with German Idealism (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1998), pp. 200-03.
35. See van Buren, "Critical Environmental Hermeneutics," pp. 259-75.