Dignity Pleasures Vulgarity: Philosophy + Animal Rights

While writing a chapter on contemporary animal rights for an ethics book philosophy professor James Brusseau began asking how the animal studies could reflect back to reveal human truths. Dignity Pleasures Vulgarity pursues that question as it ranges from an accessible look at todays philosophy of animal ethics to an investigation of what we can learn about ourselves in the midst of thinking about animals.Set against the backdrop of the wine sex love and blood soaked running of the bulls in Pamplona Spain this short and compelling narrative nonfiction explores how animals - human and nonhuman - exist together.