Browsing PER: Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal by Subject "Animal rights theory"

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Metaphysical Anthropocentrism, Limitrophy, and Responsibility: An Explication of the Subject of Animal Rights

de Villiers, Jan-Harm (PER/PELJ, 2018)

This article undertakes a critical analysis of subjectivity and exposes the metaphysical and anthropocentric quasi-transcendental conditions that give rise to the construct(ion) of the Subject. I locate a critical moment ...
Thinking-of-the-Animal-Other with Emmanuel Levinas

De Villiers, Jan-Harm (PER/PELJ, 2020)

This article situates the texts in which Emmanuel Levinas directly addresses questions of animality against the backdrop of his larger oeuvre and argues that, despite an explicit attempt to arrange a privileged ethical ...