Description: Draws on Merleau-Ponty's account of the origins of animal desire and extends it, pushing the human-animal relationship toward more explicitly ethical conclusions than Merleau-Ponty himself proposed.
Brief description: Chandler D. Rogers is Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. His interests are in environmental philosophy, 19th-century philosophy, phenomenology and the philosophy of religion. His work has been published in journals such as International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Theology, Environmental Philosophy, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, and Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology.
Review Quotes: Merleau-Ponty and the Human-Animal Relation is a work of remarkable synthesis and impressive originality. Rogers helps us to understand our humanity in ways that are both more fully animal and more fully human, developing ideas like solicitation-and-response, animauxdenial, and others that deserve wide readership and discussion. A brilliant, challenging, and inspiring work.--Brian Treanor, Loyola Marymount University