BEASTS OF BURDEN: ANIMAL AND DISABILITY LIBERATION

Book ID/图书代码： 12861017C00009

English Summary/英文概要： How much of what we understand of ourselves as "human" depends on our physical and mental abilities--how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much of our definition of "human" depends on its difference from "animal"?

Drawing on her own experiences as a disabled person, a disability activist, and an animal advocate, author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply, and sometimes uncomfortably, about what divides the human from the animal, the disabled from the nondisabled--and what it might mean to break down those divisions, to claim the animal and the vulnerable in ourselves, in a process she calls "cripping animal ethics."

Beasts of Burden suggests that issues of disability and animal justice--which have heretofore primarily been presented in opposition--are in fact deeply entangled. Fusing philosophy, memoir, science, and the radical truths these disciplines can bring--whether about factory farming, disability oppression, or our assumptions of human superiority over animals--Taylor draws attention to new worlds of experience and empathy that can open up important avenues of solidarity across species and ability. Beasts of Burden is a wonderfully engaging and elegantly written work, both philosophical and personal, by a brilliant new voice.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我们对自我“人类”身份的理解多大程度上取决于我们的生理和心理能力，即行动（或无法行动）？我们对“人类”的定义又有多大程度上取决于“人类”与“动物”的区别？

作者Sunaura Taylor作为一名残障人士、残障人士积极分子以及动物保护主义者，从其自身的经验出发，说服读者深入思考，究竟是什么将人类与动物区别开来，将残疾人与非残疾人区别开来？打破这些界限意味着什么？

《野兽的负担》认为，残疾与动物公平的问题从本质上说是相互关联的。作者Taylor通过引用哲学、自传和科学（无论是工厂农耕、残疾压迫，还是认为人类优于动物的论断），向读者展示了全新的体验和共鸣，在不同的物种和能力之间创建团结。本书精彩有趣，语言优美，既有哲学思想，又有个人经验。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：Praise for Beasts of Burden:

“Judith Butler meets St. Francis of Assisi.”—The New Yorker

"From one of the foremost chroniclers of the twentieth century’s other great dilemma, we now have this powerful set of reflections on climate change—they set in useful and vivid context this great crisis, and will be of use to all as we try to think our way through it."—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

"I am not the same animal I was before I read this book."—Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip

"Finally, finally someone has come along to undo all the damage Peter Singer has done. Beasts of Burden is a brave and brilliant book."—Michael Bérubé, author of Life as We Know It and The Secret Life of Stories

"Beasts of Burden is a game-changer."—Marc Bekoff, author of Rewilding Our Hearts and The Animals’ AgendaFeminist, Queer, Crip

"Sunaura Taylor will shake up your categories, turn your world inside-out, and tell you a lot of fascinating and important things you didn’t know yet, about your own body and the bodies of others, human and nonhuman, under an inhumane regime. A startling, readable, sometimes hilarious inquiry into the human condition from a whole new direction, this book might be very, very important, a book to stand alongside "The Body in Pain" and "The Human Condition.""--Rebecca Solnit

"Sunaura Taylor has written an amazing book that acts both as an intervention into widely held beliefs about disability and animals and an invitation to reimagine ourselves. Her thoroughly original, brilliant narrative transformed my imagination." --Carol J. Adams, author of "The Sexual Politics of Meat"

About the Author/作者介绍： Sunaura Taylor 是一名艺术家兼作家，目前居住在纽约州。她曾为《美国季刊》、《每月评论》、BOMB杂志等期刊供稿。此外，她还参与了《生态女性主义》、《叛逆的女儿》、《无限都市》等书籍的编写工作。电影及同名著作《反思人生》中均收录了Taylor和Judith Butler的对话。

Sunaura Taylor is an artist and writer based in New York City. She has written for AlterNet, "American Quarterly," "BOMB," the "Monthly Review," "Qui Parle," and "Yes! Magazine." She has contributed to the books "Ecofeminism," "Defiant Daughters," "Occupy!," "Stay Solid," and "Infinite City." Taylor and Judith Butler’s conversation is featured in the film "Examined Life" and the book of the same title, published by The New Press.

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