Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments

Abstract

This collection of essays explores the assumptions behind the label ‘anthropocentrism’, specifically aiming critically to enquire into pre-suppositions about the meaning of ‘human’ The book looks funda-mentally to understand what is anthroposin anthropocentrism How is the human defined through or against animal and objectified others, abstract environments and ecologies, and constructed cos-mologies? The collection will address the epistemological and onto-logical problems of charges of anthropocentrism, tackling the ques tion of whether all human views are inherently anthropocentric.