Animal ethics in The Dialogue of the Dogs
Ecological awareness against the maltreatment of animals gives form to a horizon of expectations that allows Coloquio de los perros to acquire pedagogical relevance as a text in defense of animal rights. Nothing is obvious, Cervantes´ Horatian poetics seems to say, neither the intelligence and ratio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Castilla, La Mancha
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Ocnos |
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| Online Access: | https://revista.uclm.es/index.php/ocnos/article/view/1590 |
| Summary: | Ecological awareness against the maltreatment of animals gives form to a horizon of expectations that allows Coloquio de los perros to acquire pedagogical relevance as a text in defense of animal rights. Nothing is obvious, Cervantes´ Horatian poetics seems to say, neither the intelligence and rationality of human animals, nor thoughtlessness and mechanistic behaviour of non-human animals. In the context of the Anthropocene era and from an ecocritical perspective, Coloquio de los perros shows itself as a critical reading of the foundings of the human exceptionality, and as a crude reflection on the relations of power between human beings and between them and nature and its inhabitants. |
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| ISSN: | 1885-446X 2254-9099 |