Beasts & Boundaries

In her new book, "Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics", Religion professor Anna L. Peterson explores the tensions between humans and animals, nature and culture, animals and nature, and domesticity and wildness. 

"For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting the first examination of animals' place in popular and scholarly thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects who are simultaneously parts of both nature and human society."

Preview the book, "Being Animal" here.

And check out an inspired website with the same name here.