From the moment when we first open our homes - and our hearts - to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and most of us deal with it by simply ignoring its inevitability. With "The Last Walk", Jessica Pierce makes a forceful case that our pets, and the love we bear them, deserve better. Drawing on the moving story of the last year of the life of her own treasured dog, Ody, she presents an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical, and moral issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death of their companion animals. Pierce combines heart-wrenching personal stories, interviews, and scientific research to consider a wide range of questions about animal aging, end-of-life care, and death. She tackles such vexing questions as whether animals are aware of death, whether they're feeling pain, and if and when euthanasia is appropriate. Given what we know and can learn, how should we best honor the lives of our pets, both while they live and after they have left us? The product of a lifetime of loving pets, studying philosophy, and collaborating with scientists at the forefront of the study of animal behavior and cognition, "The Last Walk" asks - and answers - the toughest questions pet owners face. The result is informative, moving, and consoling in equal parts; no pet lover should miss it.

《原民狩獵的倫理省思》（思想33）的專輯是「原民狩獵的倫理省思」。
當代的動物倫理或生態保護的主張，與原住民的傳統生態智慧，原本都是朝向人與自然環境共生的理想，兩者並不衝突。但長期以來的原漢矛盾，往往讓動物保護的主張，涵括在所謂的強勢族群文化中，造成了壓迫原住民族文化的假象，引發了少數民族情感上的反彈，而失去了對話的可能。
《原民狩獵的倫理省思》（思想33）專輯，便是在「荒野中的救贖：邁向原住民狩獵與動物保護的衡平」論壇交鋒後，邀請其中幾位參與者根據演講撰寫的文章。本期另一個專輯是「大陸新儒學探究」，探討近年來大陸新儒學的發展。
《原民狩獵的倫理省思》（思想33）的訪談對象是王兵，探討電影在社會中的功能和需求。

動物倫理學的出現，不僅為動物的命運爭取到道德的地位，
也突破了西方道德思考傳統體質上的盲點。
一種動物倫理學，必然同時是一種從評價的角度想像「動物的生命」的方式：動物的生命固然是自然的事實，但這種生命是否自有其價值，在實現某種值得人類承認的好事，故能要求人類的尊重與關懷呢？動物倫理學的一個關鍵主題在於，動物的生命是不是足以指向某種具有應然意涵的價值，從而用尊重與關懷為標準，人類對待動物的方式，就有了「對與不對」可言。
本期的人物訪談是莽萍先生，談動物保護事業在中國。本期另一個專題是「兩岸儒家」，包括：關於「新儒家」的爭論、港台新儒家與大陸新儒家的兩行反思、對於大陸新公羊學的初步省思等各篇專文。

西方传统中，社会契约理论是最强大的社会正义理论之一，罗尔斯的正义论在当代首屈一指，但它也未能解决如下三个社会正义问题：我们如何把教育、健康关怀、政治权利和自由等这些平等的公民权利延伸到那些身体和心理不健全者？我们如何把正义和有尊严的生活条件延伸到世界上的所有公民？我们如何把非人类动物纳入我们的社会正义观？
玛莎•C•纳斯鲍姆的杰出著作《正义的前沿》，正是从处理这三个长期被现存理论所忽视的、亟待解决的社会正义问题入手，寻求一种可以更好地指引我们进行社会合作的社会正义理论。基于对现有社会契约理论在这三个方面局限性的反思，纳斯鲍姆发展出一种基于“能力”的替代理论，这一理论有助于我们更清楚地思考政治合作的目的和政治原则的本质，以及期待一种适应于所有物种包括非人类动物的更大正义。

Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, "Frontiers of Justice" is dedicated to this proposition. Taking up three urgent problems of social justice neglected by current theories and thus harder to tackle in practical terms and everyday life, Martha Nussbaum seeks a theory of social justice that can guide us to a richer, more responsive approach to social cooperation. The idea of the social contract--especially as developed in the work of John Rawls--is one of the most powerful approaches to social justice in the Western tradition. But as Nussbaum demonstrates, even Rawls's theory, suggesting a contract for mutual advantage among approximate equals, cannot address questions of social justice posed by unequal parties. How, for instance, can we extend the equal rights of citizenship--education, health care, political rights and liberties--to those with physical and mental disabilities? How can we extend justice and dignified life conditions to all citizens of the world? And how, finally, can we bring our treatment of nonhuman animals into our notions of social justice? Exploring the limitations of the social contract in these three areas, Nussbaum devises an alternative theory based on the idea of "capabilities." She helps us to think more clearly about the purposes of political cooperation and the nature of political principles--and to look to a future of greater justice for all.

<DIV>The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies—two subjects seldom theorized together—signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the “question of the animal,” challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by tracing how the politics of capital and of animal life impinge upon one another in market cultures of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Shukin argues that an analysis of capital’s incarnations in animal figures and flesh is pivotal to extending the examination of biopower beyond its effects on humans. “Rendering” refers simultaneously to cultural technologies and economies of mimesis and to the carnal business of boiling down and recycling animal remains. Rendering’s accommodation of these discrepant logics, she contends, suggests a rubric for the critical task of tracking the biopolitical conditions and contradictions of animal capital across the spaces of culture and economy.
From the animal capital of abattoirs and automobiles, films and mobile phones, to pandemic fear of species-leaping diseases such as avian influenza and mad cow, Shukin makes startling linkages between visceral and virtual currencies in animal life, illuminating entanglements of species, race, and labor in the conditions of capitalism. In reckoning with the violent histories and intensifying contradictions of animal rendering, Animal Capital raises provocative and pressing questions about the cultural politics of nature.

Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in "Before the Law", Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans and animals under biopolitics. Wolfe argues that the human-animal distinction must be supplemented with the central distinction of biopolitics: the difference between those animals that are members of a community and those that are deemed killable but not murderable. From this understanding, we can begin to make sense of the fact that this distinction prevails within both the human and animal domains and address such difficult issues as why we afford some animals unprecedented levels of care and recognition while subjecting others to unparalleled forms of brutality and exploitation. Engaging with many major figures in biopolitical thought - from Heidegger, Arendt, and Foucault to Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Derrida - Wolfe explores how biopolitics can help us understand both the ethical and political dimensions of the current questions surrounding the rights of animals.