This book is about the human-animal relationship, about the object-status animals have been assigned and about the need to rethink our image of animals.
`Humans and Animals is vast in scope and vision: it synthesizes an array of disparate research and scholarship, and in doing so exposes the tensions and inconsistencies in the view of animals through different areas of Western thought... A project of such breadth is unprecedented and there is no existing conceptual framework for a work of this kind: it is certain to spark a furore of philosophical debate' Sandra Harding, University of Delaware.