On the occasion of a decade for the publication of the book Zoopolis, probably the most famous attempt so far to suggest some kind of a model for the inevitable conflict of interests between human and nonhuman animals, we will dedicate a serious of posts for its main ideas.
The animal rights movement doesn’t suggest or usually even deal with this issue, or at all with how humans should treat animals outside of the systematical exploitation realm. The book Zoopolis offers a new model for human-animal relations, one which is based on a political theory rather than on an ethical one.
The following which is the first post of the series, focuses on the authors’ claim that the animal rights movement’s problem is the animal rights theory, as well as on the books’ central idea which is that humans have different relational obligations to different animals according to the relations humans have with them.
