Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.
2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Starting from a specific case, the spontaneous return of wolves to France and the intense conflicts that event has triggered, the French philosopher Baptiste Morizot invites us to think about what he calls ‘diplomacy with living beings.’ How can we conceive of cohabitation with the most recalcitrant wildlife, large predators in particular, and what concrete solutions need to be invented to make this happen? Drawing on knowledge gleaned from history and philosophy as well as from ethology, scientific ecology, and biology, Wild Diplomacy prompts us to ask what relations we want to reinvent with living beings today and how we might fundamentally reimagine our status as living beings among other life forms. This prize-winning book has broken new ground in contemporary French environmental philosophy.
Table des matières
Gallery of Diplomats
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Diplomatic Crisis: Cohabiting with Large Predators
Introduction
1. The Diplomatic Model
2. Seeking King Solomon’s Ring
3. Understanding and Influencing Behavior
4. Animal Political Philosophy
Part II: Diplomatic Intelligence: For a Wolf Science
5. Orienting Wolf Pack Cultures
6. Toward the Social Sciences of Wolves: Interiority, Variability, Sociality
7. A Laboratory Called Yellowstone
8. On Intentionality: Toward an Animist Epistemology
9. A Differently Rational Shamanism
10. On Tracking
Part III: The Diplomatic Project: An Ethics of Relations
11. The Power That Is Diplomacy
12. We Have Invented the Wolf
13. Constitutive Relations
14. What Mutualisms in Our Relations with Wolves?
Notes
Bibliography
A propos de l’auteur
Baptiste Morizot is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille in France. His many books include On the Animal Trail. Catherine Porter is Visiting Scholar at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University.
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