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Carlo Salzani | Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism The Limits of Imagination | Palgrave Macmillan | 2025

This open access book explores the role of imagination in animal ethics and its constitutive links to empathy/sympathy and anthropomorphism. The book argues for the constitutive role of imagination in ethical deliberation, but acknowledges that there exist important limits to its use. However, “limit” is here understood not merely negatively as restriction and insufficiency, but rather positively as “condition of possibility,” so what the book explores and analyses are the conditions for a positive and fruitful use of the imagination in ethics. The book uses as a “frame” the questions and issues raised in J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals to explore some central and salient themes.

1 Introduction: Limits, Possibilities, and Bats 1
Part I The Limits of Imagination 13
2 The Challenge of Otherness: J.M. Coetzee vs. Thomas
Nagel 15
3 The Just and Loving Gaze of the Poet: Animals
and Poetry 35
4 The Pitfalls of Embodiment: Imagination, Disability,
Animality 57
Part II The Limits of Empathy 79
5 Sympathy, Empathy, & Co.: Moral Sentimentalism and
Its Discontents 81
6 Feeling One’s Way in an Intersubjective World:
Phenomenology of Empathy 103
7 Listening to What the (Animal) Other Is Saying:
Empathy and Care 127
Part III The Limits of Anthropomorphism 149
8 If a Chimp Could Talk: On the Advantages and Limits
of Primatomorphism 151
9 Tentacular Logocentrism: Octopus Minds and Human
Imagination 177
10 The Back of the Snake, Or, Face to Face with the Other 203
Epilogue 229
Works Cited 235
Index 237


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cristinalvares (7 mai 2025). Carlo Salzani | Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism The Limits of Imagination | Palgrave Macmillan | 2025. Animots. Consulté le 18 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13w09


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