Bonus: Deception with John Sanbonmatsu
John Sanbonmatsu joins Claudia on the show to discuss ‘deception,’ a concept in the title of his recently published book “The Omnivore’s Deception.” We explore how deception operates in understandings of meat and human relations with animals, including how industries actively deceive the public but also how individuals engage in practices of bad faith and self-deception.
About John Sanbonmatsu
John Sanbonmatsu is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he teaches courses in ethics, politics, and existentialism, philosophy of technology, and other topics. He is the author of The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves (NYU Press) and of The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject (Monthly Review Press). He is also editor of the book Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (Bloomsbury). His opinion essays have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, CounterPunch, Huffington Post, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, among other places. Learn more about him on his website.
Featured:
The Omnivore’s Deception by John Sanbonmatsu
The Postmodern Prince by John Sanbonmatsu
Animal Liberationby Peter Singer
The Omnivores Dilemmaby Michael Pollan
The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith
The Women’s Room by Marilyn French
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Bad Faith by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Animals versus man the king of the jinn by Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee
Anti-Semite and Jewby Jean-Paul Satre
Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass
Thank you to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E) for sponsoring this podcast, to Jeremy John for the logo and Gordon Clarke or the bed music. Thank you to Christiaan Menz for his editing work. This podcast is produced and hosted by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder
