Embodied Communication and Interspecies Justice

A Phenomenological Approach to Law, Ethics, and Agency
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-31704-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 339 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series

This book advances a bold phenomenological foundation for animal legal personhood. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty, care ethics, ethology, Indigenous studies, and critical human–animal scholarship, Aubert develops a post-anthropocentric account of animals as embodied, intentional, communicative, and vulnerable agents. The book challenges dominant cognitive and anthropocentric criteria for inclusion in moral and legal communities, proposing instead an ethics grounded in attentiveness, relationality, and embodied communication. Through vivid multispecies encounters, Aubert identifies animals’ fundamental interests and preference-based agency, advancing a framework for translating their standpoints into legal institutions. Interweaving analytic clarity with personal reflection, this interdisciplinary study reimagines animal rights, legal subjecthood, and ecological care for the Anthropocene, offering an innovative path forward for law, ethics, and environmental humanities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caramuru Pessôa Aubert, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Naturschutz-, Landschafts-, Tierschutz- und Seerecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introducing the Book.- Part I Phenomenological Considerations for Human–Animal Ethics.- Chapter 2. Human-Centred Animal Ethics.- Chapter 3. Depicting Animals Through Phenomenology.- Chapter 4. Phenomenological Considerations for an Animal Ethics.- Part II Listening to Animals.- Chapter 5. Collaboration.- Chapter 6. Trauma.- Chapter 7. Love.- Chapter 8. Care.- Part III Crafting Animal Law in a Post-Anthropocentric World.- Chapter 9. Turning to Law.- Chapter 10. Imagining Rights with and for Animals.- Chapter 11. Autonomy of the Agentic Body-Subject.- Chapter 12. The ‘Agency’ Turn.

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Caramuru Pessôa Aubert is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, working on animal farming and climate change within the Brazilian constitutional landscape.