Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (733 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073RQBQWL |
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| Number of Pages | : | 193 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Entangled Empathy, scholar and activist Lori Gruen argues that rather than focusing on animal "rights", we ought to work to make our relationships with animals right by empathetically responding to their needs, interests, desires, vulnerabilities, hopes, and unique perspectives. When we engage in entangled empathy we are transformed and in that transformation we can imagine less violent, more meaningful ways of being together.. It is an experiential process involving a blend of emotion and cognition in which we recognize we are in rela
Context and relationship are central in our interactions with different nonhuman animals Sabrina Brando Another excellent book by Dr. Gruen. As someone working for and with animals in a variety of settings, doing a lot of staff training, and very interested in the human-animal interaction and relationships I was immediately drawn to this book. The book discusses a different appr. "Celebrating Our Entangled Lives" according to John C. Fentress. An insightful view of how humans and other species share various levels of empathetic understanding and caring for each other. I found this very helpful in the final preparation stages of my wolf book: LUPEY JOURNALS - LESSONS FROM THE HEART OF A WOLF (see lupeywolf.com). The . Jean Vengua said Entangled Empathy Provokes Thought & Feeling. Very interesting book on empathy and human-animal interaction; remarkably lucid and readable. I found it very useful for my practice of haptic drawing and painting []. I only wish that Gruen's book had been longer, and that she had gone more deeply into the subject