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In this book, Keekok Lee asks the question, 'what is an animal, and how does our treatment of it within captivity affect its status as a being ?' This ontological treatment marks the first such approach in looking at animals in captivity. Engaging with the moral questions of zoo-keeping (is it morally justified to keep a wild animal in captivity?) as well as the ontological (what is it that we conserve in zoos after all? A wild animal or its shadow?), Lee develops her own original hypothesis, centred around the concept of 'immuration' - defining this in contrast to domestication - and thereby provides a unique addition to the growing body of work on animal ethics.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Zoos
• Subtitle: A Philosophical Tour
• Author: Keekok Lee
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 174
• EAN: 9781403986245
• ISBN: 140398624X
• ID: 04777557
• Publisher: Palgrave USA
• Weight: 356 g
• Dimensions: 143 × 225 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. November 2005

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