Knowing Life The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies

Introduction: From the Limits of Intelligibility to Perceptive Rearrangements

Brianne Donaldson

SECTION I: LIVING CONCEPTS

Praxis A: Threshold Concepts for Multispecies Communication
M.J. Barrett

1. Precursor to Knowledge: Semiosis as Ground of Multispecies Morality 
Ralph R. Acampora

2. Weaving Life and Death Back Together: On Multispecies Mortality 
Beatrice Marovich

3. Voracious Secularism: Emotional Habitus and the Desire for Knowledge in Animal Experimentation
Donovan Schaefer

4. Synchronicities of the Living and the Non-Living
Wahida Khandker

5. Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, and African Social Epistemology
Kai Horsthemke

SECTION II: GROWING PERCEPTIONS

Praxis B: The Obligations of Our Ecological Relations: A Challenge for Land Acknowledgments
Angela Robinson and Laura Terrance

6. Decolonizing Listening: From Grammars of lo Inaudito to Expansive Onto-Epistemic Thresholds
María del Rosario Acosta López and Juan Diego Pérez Moreno

7. The Tree of Life-Death: On the Vegetal Wisdom of Life in the Book of Zohar
Michael Marder

8. Expansive Modes of Multispecies Knowing Toward Nonviolence in the Early Jain Canon
Brianne Donaldson

9. Multispecies Kinship and Kindness: Knowing Life through Animist Etiquette and Ethics
Graham Harvey

SECTION III: FREEING SUBJECTIVITIES

Praxis C: Knowing Animals in the Anthropocene through Animal Photojournalism
Jo-Anne McArthur

10.  Gendered Assumptions in Narratives and Practices of Animal Welfare
Jacob Bull

11.  Unknown Patterns of Intersubjectivity: Zhuangzi, the Seabird and the Happy Fish 
Jana S. Rošker

12. Genre of the Animal: Beyond Racial Capitalist Consumption
Che Gossett

13. The Forbidden Turn: Decentering Modern Subjectivity by Integrating Animal and Mystic Affects 
Balbinder Singh Bhogal

14. Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Multispecies Epistemology
Bligh Somma

SECTION IV: EXPERIMENTAL RESPONSES

Praxis D: Making Music with Mysterious Species in Ponds
David Rothenberg

15.  A Multispecies Cosmovision: Knowing Nonhumans Beyond the Cognitive Imaginary in Buddhist Thought and Practice
Daniel M. Stuart

16. How to Love Animals? Attentive Platonic Love as an Epistemic and Moral Method
Elisa Aaltola

17. Transspecies Selves: Rethinking Species-Being and the Boundaries of the Human
Gabriele Schwab

18. Knowing Multiply, Unexpectedly, Imaginatively: Decolonizing Knowledge with Gloria Anzaldúa
Suzanne Bost

Biography

Brianne Donaldson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy and Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA. She is the author of Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation, co-author of Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition, editor of Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: A Common World for Animals and the Environment, and co-editor of The Future of Meat Without Animals, and Feeling Animal Death: Being Host to Ghosts.