Respect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. Poets, thinkers, philosophers, scientists and statesmen have long celebrated our compassion towards Earth's other beasts. Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb compiles the most significant statements of sensibility to animals in the history of thought. From the myths of the ancient world to the Middle Ages to Darwin and beyond, Preece captures the most telling and fascinating accounts of humankind's relationship to the wild world, placing them in historical context. Jung called it "an unconscious identity with animals," while Wordsworth saw it as the "primal sympathy which having been must ever be." Linking the diverse chords of human experience that are touched by the animal world, Preece shows that despite a historical thread of cruelty, there still remains in all humanity a constant underlying concern for other beings as an integral part of the moral community. With musings and meditations from Lao Tse to Mohammed, from Plato to Jane Goodall, from classical religion to parliamentary proceedings, Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb is an original, superbly researched history that deepens our understan of all living beings.
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This intelligently edited, deeply researched anthology presents a wealth of writing, from antiquity to the beginning of the twentieth century, on compassion toward animals.
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Rod Preece is Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has written widely about animal rights, and is the author of Animals and Nature: Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities and Animal Welfare and Human Values.
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The stories of myth and religion reflect in part the cultural, social, political, and economic realities of the type of society in which they arise. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primeval diet, created from animals, animal ethics, animal realm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Medicine, Middle Ages, Charles Darwin, John Locke, Erasmus Darwin, Jeremy Bentham, Sir Arthur, Alexander Pope, New York, Thomas Young, United States, Edmund Burke, George Fox, Howard Williams, John of the Cross, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Victoria Street Society, Asia Minor, Black Beauty, Charles Dickens, Frances Power Cobbe, George Bernard Shaw, George Nicholson, Great Chain of Being New!
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The stories of myth and religion reflect in part the cultural, social, political, and economic realities of the type of society in which they arise. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primeval diet, created from animals, animal ethics, animal realm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Medicine, Middle Ages, Charles Darwin, John Locke, Erasmus Darwin, Jeremy Bentham, Sir Arthur, Alexander Pope, New York, Thomas Young, United States, Edmund Burke, George Fox, Howard Williams, John of the Cross, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Victoria Street Society, Asia Minor, Black Beauty, Charles Dickens, Frances Power Cobbe, George Bernard Shaw, George Nicholson, Great Chain of Being New!
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- The Extended Circle: A Dictionary of Humane Thought by Jon Wynne-Tyson on 9 pages
- Essay On Humanity To Animals (Thoemmes Press - Thoemmes Library of Eighteenth-Century Texts) by Thomas Young on 5 pages
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer on page 68, page 90, and page 256
- Animals and Christianity: A Book of Readings by Andrew Linzey in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Original stories by Mary Wollstonecraft on page 200, page 203, and Back Matter
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- Food for Thought: The Debate Over Eating Meat (Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)) by Steve F. Sapontzis in Back Matter
- The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato by John Heath in Back Matter
- Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement by Stephen Eric Bronner on page 161
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