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Rod Preece is professor emeritus at Wilfrid LaurierUniversity and is the author of a number of books, including BruteSouls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution and Sins of the Flesh.

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Focusing on the ideas of Bernard Shaw, Rod Preece examines modernist views of animal rights in the context of late Victorian socialism.

Rod Preece is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has edited and written several books, including Animal Welfare and Human Values (1993), Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb (2002), and Animals and Nature (1999), which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award and was shortlisted for the Raymond Klibansky Prize.

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This work brings together the most significant statements of sensibility to animals in the history of thought. Each chapter begins with an introduction that explains the significance of the passages, and relates them to each other culturally, historically and philosophically.

No one tradition alone offers a sufficient respect for other species. Taken together, they may offer a prospect for saner human-animal relations." - From the book

In this provocative book, Rod Preece takes issue with the popular view that the Western cultural tradition, in contrast to Eastern and Native American traditions, has encouraged attitudes of domination and exploitation towards nature, particularly animals. He argues that the much maligned Western tradition has more to commend it than is customarily recognized, and that the Native and Oriental orientations to animals and nature have often been ...

Renowned animal rights author Rod Preece examines the history of vegetarianism in its ethical dimensions, from the origins of humanity through to the present.

Renowned animal rights author Rod Preece examines the history of vegetarianism in its ethical dimensions, from the origins of humanity through to the present.

The authors, standing squarely on the side of the animals, suggest community and belonging as concepts through which to understand our relationships to other species. They ground their ideas in Wordsworth's primal sympathy and Jung's unconscious identity with the animal realm. The philosophy developed in this book embraces common sense and compromise as the surest paths to the goal of animal welfare. It requires respect and consideration for o...