54 min
Janet Gyatso, Posthumanism and Animal Ethics in Buddhist Studies The Circled Square
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Description
In this episode, Dr. Janet Gyatso discusses how she teaches her students about posthumanism and animal ethics in her courses on Buddhist Studies. She is the Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Harvard Divinity School.
Quotes
“Part of what I'm trying to do is set aside all the mythology and ideology that we have and try to see animals for what they are.” Janet Gyatso
“Posthumanism is an attempt to ratchet down the centrality of humans, in our thought, in our discourse, in our vision of what's important, and to decenter the human.” Janet Gyatso
“We don't only use our rational minds, we never only use our rational minds, we always are embodied, it's only the question of what we can foreground and be aware of.” Janet Gyatso
Links and References
Autobiography of Jigme Lingpa https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691009483/apparitions-of-the-self
Donna Haraway
Rosi Braidotti https://rosibraidotti.com/publications/the-posthuman-2/
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo22265507.html
Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520276116/how-forests-think
Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter https://www.dukeupress.edu/vibrant-matter
Franz De Waal
Carl Safina, Beyond Words https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805098884
Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men https://bookshop.org/books/of-wolves-and-men/9780684163222
Robert Macfarlane
My Octopus Teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s0LTDhqe5A&ab_channel=Netflix
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation https://www.amazon.ca/Animal-Liberation-Definitive-Classic-Movement/dp/0061711306
Christine Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures https://global.oup.com/academic/product/fellow-creatures-9780198753858?cc=ca&lang=en&
Alice Crary, Inside Ethics https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674967816
Thomas Nagel, What is it like to be a bat? https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/humananimalstudies/lectures/32/nagel_bat.pdf
Cows coming out after winter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8dAnlD51o&ab_channel=CowSignals
James Rebanks, The Herdy Shepherd
Janet Gyatso on Harvard Divinity School website https://hds.harvard.edu/people/janet-gyatso
Description
In this episode, Dr. Janet Gyatso discusses how she teaches her students about posthumanism and animal ethics in her courses on Buddhist Studies. She is the Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Harvard Divinity School.
Quotes
“Part of what I'm trying to do is set aside all the mythology and ideology that we have and try to see animals for what they are.” Janet Gyatso
“Posthumanism is an attempt to ratchet down the centrality of humans, in our thought, in our discourse, in our vision of what's important, and to decenter the human.” Janet Gyatso
“We don't only use our rational minds, we never only use our rational minds, we always are embodied, it's only the question of what we can foreground and be aware of.” Janet Gyatso
Links and References
Autobiography of Jigme Lingpa https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691009483/apparitions-of-the-self
Donna Haraway
Rosi Braidotti https://rosibraidotti.com/publications/the-posthuman-2/
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo22265507.html
Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520276116/how-forests-think
Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter https://www.dukeupress.edu/vibrant-matter
Franz De Waal
Carl Safina, Beyond Words https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805098884
Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men https://bookshop.org/books/of-wolves-and-men/9780684163222
Robert Macfarlane
My Octopus Teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s0LTDhqe5A&ab_channel=Netflix
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation https://www.amazon.ca/Animal-Liberation-Definitive-Classic-Movement/dp/0061711306
Christine Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures https://global.oup.com/academic/product/fellow-creatures-9780198753858?cc=ca&lang=en&
Alice Crary, Inside Ethics https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674967816
Thomas Nagel, What is it like to be a bat? https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/humananimalstudies/lectures/32/nagel_bat.pdf
Cows coming out after winter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8dAnlD51o&ab_channel=CowSignals
James Rebanks, The Herdy Shepherd
Janet Gyatso on Harvard Divinity School website https://hds.harvard.edu/people/janet-gyatso
54 min