 | With Dogs at the Edge of Life Subjects: Dog owners -- Psychology; Dogs -- Social aspects -- United States; Human-animal relationships -- Moral and ethical aspects; Animal welfare -- United States; Rethinking what it means for dogs and humans to live together in the twenty-first century, taking us beyond sentimentality and into a form of thought that sees the world in a radically different way. Colin Dayan is Robert Penn Warren Professor of the Humanities and professor of law at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons , The Story of Cruel and Unusual , and Haiti, History, and the Gods . She has also written for the New York Times , London Review of Books , and Boston Review . |
