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

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2022.10.01

Keywords:

animal rights, political rights, political turn, welfarism, sentiocracy

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. 

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Published

2022-02-14

How to Cite

Gzyra, D. (2022). From Welfarism to Sentiocracy [A Review of Alasdair Cochrane’s Should Animals Have Political Rights? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020]. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (2 (10), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2022.10.01