Gary Steiner
American philosopher
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| Intro | American philosopher | ||||||
| Places | United States of America | ||||||
| is | Philosopher Professor Educator | ||||||
| Work field | Academia Philosophy | ||||||
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| Birth | 22 August 1956 | ||||||
| Age | 68 years | ||||||
| Star sign | Leo | ||||||
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Biography
Gary Steiner is an American moral philosopher, and the John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. Steiner's particular focus is animal rights, Descartes, and 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy.
Works
- Books
- Descartes As a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism. Humanity Books, 2004.
- Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
- Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship. Columbia University Press, 2008.
- Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism. Columbia University Press, 2013.
- Translations
- Klaus Hartmann. "Marx's Capital from the Viewpoint of Transcendental Philosophy," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 24, 1993, pp. 157–171.
- Karl Löwith. Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism. Columbia University Press, 1998.
- Gerold Prauss. Knowing & Doing in Heidegger's Being & Time. Humanity Books, 1999.
- Dominique Lestel. Eat This Book: A Carnivore's Manifesto. Columbia University Press, 2016.
- Selected articles
- "Rethinking the Cognitive Abilities of Animals," Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell (eds.). Experiencing Animals: Encounters Between Animal and Human Minds. Columbia University Press (forthcoming).
- "Animal Rights and the Default of Postmodernism," Evangelos Protopapadakis (ed.). Animal Rights - Animal Liberation. Berlin: Logos Verlag (forthcoming).
- Steiner, Gary. "Animal, Vegetable, Miserable", The New York Times, 21 November 2009.