Sanbonmatsu - Critical Theory and Animal Liberation

Carol J. Adams is author of The Pornography of Meat (2004) and The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (1989), as well as editor of several books, including, with Josephine Donovan, The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics (2008).

Aaron Bell is a Ph.D. candidate in the social, political, ethical, and legal (SPEL) philosophy program at SUNY Binghamton. His research interests include first-generation critical theoryespecially the work of Theodor W. Adornopsychoanalysis, and the contemporary philosophical study of animals.

Susan Benston is a poet and novelist. She is author of Dura Mater: Poems, Deluge, and Munchausen: A Novel. She teaches English at Haverford College.

Ted Benton teaches sociology at the University of Essex. His books include Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights, and Social justice (1993), Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociologies (1977), and The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism (1984).

Carl Boggs teaches political science at National University in Los Angeles. Among his many books are The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the De-cline of the Public Sphere (2000), Gramsci's Marxism (1977), Social Movements and Political Power (1989), Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity (1993), and Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War (2005).

Karen Davis is a leading activist and scholar in the animal rights movement, and founder and president of United Poultry Concerns. Davis is author of The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale (2005) and More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality (2001).

Josephine Donovan is a leading feminist political philosopher, and author of Feminist Theory (2000) and Sarah Orne Jewett (2002). Her collaborative work with Carol Adams on books such as Animals and Women (1995) and Beyond Animal Rights (1996) has defined an entirely new field of theoretical and political work.

Christina Gerhardt is visiting scholar at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the Frankfurt School and especially on Theodor W. Adorno. She is editor of Adorno and Ethics and New German Critique 97 (2006), and has authored numerous articles, including on Adorno and on Kracauer, and encyclopedia entries, including on the Frankfurt School, on Adorno, and on Lukcs. Her dissertation manuscript, Language of Nature in Theodor W. Adornos Philosophical and Aesthetic Writings, an examination of natural history, beauty, and animals in the writings of Adorno, is currently under consideration for publication.

Victoria Johnson is associate professor of sociology at the University of Missouri at Columbia, with specialization in the empirical analysis of power relations, politics, culture, and social movements. She is author of "How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook a Meal?": The Seattle and San Francisco General Strikes (2008) and coeditor (with Jo Freeman) of Waves of Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties (1999).

Renzo Llorente teaches philosophy on Saint Louis Universitys Madrid campus. He is the author of a variety of articles on Marx and Marxism, ethics, Latin American philosophy, and our duties to animals. He is also the author of a book of aphorisms, Beyond the Pale: Exercises in Provocation (2010).

Eduardo Mendieta is director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at SUNY Stony Brook, where he is associate professor of philosophy. Mendieta is the author or editor of numerous books, including Global Frag-ments: Critical Theory, Latin America and Globalizations (2007), Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy: Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics (2002), The Frankfurt School on Religion (2004), and Teoras sin Disciplinas: Latinamericanismo, Postcolonialidad y Globalizacin en debate (with Santiago Castro-Gmez, 1998).

John Sanbonmatsu is associate professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is author of the book The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject (2004), as well as articles in Social Theory and Practice, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Socialist Register, The New York Times, Z Magazine, and other publications.

John Sorenson is professor of sociology at Brock University (Canada). His books include Imagining Ethiopia: Struggles for History and Identity in the Horn of Africa (1993), Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa (1995), and Ghosts and Shadows: Construction of Identity and Community in an Afri-can Diaspora (with Atsuko Matsuoka, 2001).

Dennis Soron is associate professor of sociology at Brock University and co-editor of Not For Sale: Decommodifying Public Life (2006), as well as author of numerous book chapters, articles, and interviews on consumerism, work, the environment, and the problem of depoliticization.

Vasile Stnescu is a Ph.D. candidate in the program in modern thought and literature at Stanford University. He is co-senior editor of the Critical Animal Studies Book Series published by Rodopi Press and was named Tykes Scholar of the Year by the Institute of Critical Animal Studies. His paper in this volume won the Best Graduate Student Paper at the first annual Minding Animals Conference in Australia (2009).

Zipporah Weisberg is a Ph.D. candidate in the humanities programme at York University. Her research interests include critical social and political theory and critical animal studies. Her essay The Broken Promises of Monsters: Haraway, Animals, and the Humanist Legacy was awarded the Critical Animal Studies Graduate Dissertation of the Year and was published in the Journal for Critical Animal Studies (2009).

I could not have gotten to the end of this long project without the support of my family, whom I wish to thank (Kira, Lisa, Yoshiro, Marianne, and Donna), as well as the critical feedback of a number of friends and colleagues, especially Zipporah Weisberg (my doppelgnger on so many theoretical and political questions). I would also like to thank my comrade, Barbara Epstein, and acknowledge the support of my good friends Thomas Hartl, Chris Bobel, Nancy Zeigler, Laurie Prendergast, Matt Goodman, Tess Oliver, Eric Begleiter, Jenny Staples, Laurie Crane, Sam Diener, and Valerie Sperling. I would especially like to thank Roger Gottlieb (series editor for Rowman & Littlefield), without whose obstinate faith this book might never have seen light of day. Roger has been a mentor, comrade, and colleague in the best and truest sense of all three words. I would also like to thank the faculty and staff of the Department of Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Instituteparticularly department head Kris Boudreaufor their collegial and administrative support while I worked on this project.

Several of the articles here are reprints, and I want to extend my thanks to the various presses that accommodated my requests. I would especially like to thank Peter Hallward and the other members of the editorial collective at Radical Philosophy for generously allowing me to reprint Te d Bentons Speciesism = Humanism? for a nominal fee, as well as Jody Berland, editor of the excellent Canadian journal To p i a for permission to reprint Dennis Sorons essay on commodification and road kill. I would also like to thank Josephine Donovan for allowing me to reprint her essay on interspecies care; the editors of Green Theory and Praxis for permission to reprint an edited version of John Sorensons essay; the editors of