Foreword (on ’the Animal Question’)
in Louisa Mackenzie and Stephanie Posthumus (eds), French Thinking About Animals, East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 2015, p. vii-xiii.
Is there a French way of asking the “animal question” ? First of all, we might ask : what is the animal question exactly ? Referring back to the first uses of the expression, we can respond that the animal question was principally a question of animal ethics : what moral responsibility do humans have towards non-human animals ?
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