Book contents
- Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century
- Reviews
- Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 ‘everybody eating everyone else’
- Chapter 2 Pythagoreans; or, Vegetarians before ‘Vegetarianism’
- Chapter 3 Vegetarianism and the Utopian Novel
- Chapter 4 Vegetarianism as Religion
- Chapter 5 Vegetarianism in the Fiction of Women’s Liberation
- Chapter 6 Animal Abstinence in the Anthropocene
- Chapter 7 ‘Pity the meat!’: Ideology, Metaphor, Violence
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 7 - ‘Pity the meat!’: Ideology, Metaphor, Violence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 May 2024
- Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century
- Reviews
- Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 ‘everybody eating everyone else’
- Chapter 2 Pythagoreans; or, Vegetarians before ‘Vegetarianism’
- Chapter 3 Vegetarianism and the Utopian Novel
- Chapter 4 Vegetarianism as Religion
- Chapter 5 Vegetarianism in the Fiction of Women’s Liberation
- Chapter 6 Animal Abstinence in the Anthropocene
- Chapter 7 ‘Pity the meat!’: Ideology, Metaphor, Violence
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The final chapter draws together the themes of the book. It uses the work of Derrida, Levi, Camus, and Judith Butler to delineate the way in which carnivorism operates as an ideology of violence; it argues that much harm against the human results from the way in which we misunderstand and misconceptualise the animal. It also suggests the limitations of metaphorical thinking with regards the human–animal relationship, and suggests that a metonymical conception, based on association and contiguity, may serve both human and animal better.
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- Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century , pp. 206 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024