Thinking animals why animal studies now kari weil columbia university press main reviews contents excerpt links awards kari weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals she charts the presumed lines of difference . Thinking animals book description kari weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals she charts the presumed lines of difference between human beings and other species and the personal ethical and political implications . Thinking animals why animal studies now january 2016 the european legacy 2151 1 doi 101080 1084877020161139355 authors stanley shostak 3068 university of pittsburgh download full . Indeed for such thinkers attending to animals disrupts the very humanism that has grounded so much moral thinking and calls us to attend to our ethical responsibility in new waysin chapter ii seeing animals weil engages philosophers poets novelists and especially the work of the video artist bill viola and the photographer frank noelker to explore how we can understand animal being and the limits to our understanding of beings so different from us and each other what weil finds . Thinking animals why animal studies now kari weil examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals she charts the presumed lines of difference between human beings and other species and the personal ethical and political implications of those boundaries