Animal Crisis. Alice Crary

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      “Animal Crisis is the intellectual sum of two astute thinkers, Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, both powerful leading voices in animal ethics. By deftly weaving tenets and practices of critical social thought with the aims of animal ethics, Crary and Gruen create a new fabric with which to remake human relationships with non-human animals.

      The authors do animals the great service of considering them for themselves, of seeing their desires and relationships and experiences, and working to forge a practice that honors that consideration. Animal Crisis is a lucid and urgent invitation to a new animal ethics.”

      Alexandra Horowitz, author of Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond

      “In this wonderfully thoughtful, elegant, and moving book, two leading philosophers illuminate the contemporary ‘animal crisis’ that is bringing life on earth to the brink. A vital contribution to the development of ‘critical animal theory’ as a tool for understanding intersections among different forms of domination, violence, and exploitation that affect humans and other animals alike.”

      Claire Jean Kim, author of Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age

      “In this powerful book Crary and Gruen insist that we confront the animal crisis that in many ways defines this age of environmental catastrophe. The animal crisis they point to is undoubtedly one of unfathomable loss and damage caused by extinction and climate chaos, but it is also a crisis of thought, solidarity, and political will. At once a foray into the wide-ranging experiences of particular animals attempting to live lives in this crisis, and a philosophical investigation into the need to reinvest animal liberation theory with its social justice roots. Animal Crisis offers a path, utilizing an explicitly anticapitalist and antiracist ecofeminism to help guide our way, not to hope, but to action.”

      Sunaura Taylor, author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

“Animal Crisis presents the reader with the most thorough research into the ways in which animal lives are understood. The arguments are illustrated with stories of individual animals or groups of animals who have been cruelly treated. It is a must for all those who want to understand why we should treat animals ethically.”

      Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

      “Animal Crisis is a deeply moving book that calls on us to reconsider our relationship to animals and to the other humans and ecosystems we depend on. It offers a paradigm shift, which reveals the ideological distortions that are embedded not only in ordinary life, but throughout philosophical inquiry. It should be read by anyone seeking a way to live and think more meaningfully through our current crises.”

      Sally Haslanger, author of Resisting Reality

      “Animal Crisis is philosophy as it should be: empirically, socially, and politically informed. This book is so radical, so morally unsettling, that you have to take your courage in both hands to read it. But read it you should. It is that important.”

      Raimond Gaita, author of The Philosopher’s Dog

Animal Crisis

      A new critical theory

      Alice Crary and Lori Gruen

      polity