| Brianne Donaldson, coordinator of FMA, and assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies at Monmouth College has just published a new book Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation (Lexington Books, 2015). From the back cover: "An understandable allergy to metaphysics characterizes animal liberation and poststructural discourses, which has allowed inadequate and narrowly human-centric worldviews to dominate the field of critical animal studies. This book explores metaphysical visions that begin in the lively creaturely middle, provoking relational excesses and futures of less loss." This book especially focuses on the world visions of the nonviolent Indic tradition of Jainism and Whitehead's process-relational philosophy, alongside thinkers such as Foucault, Butler, Karen Barad, Harraway, Deleuze, Guattari, and contemporary voices such as the Animal Liberation Front, Steve Best, Anat Pick, Matt Calarco, and others. See Reviews and Table of Contents here. |