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4.0
This is a thought-provoking, slim, gem of a book on the questions of animal life and philosophical thinking about animal life. At its centre is Cora Diamond's 'The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy,' a piece that everyone who thinks about animal 'rights' or 'welfare' should read. The essays collected here are not overly-technical (i.e. one need not have committed herself to years of academic philosophy to make sense of them) but they are deeply profound. This is a book I can see coming back to again and again for its ability to trouble my own thinking about nonhuman animals.
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