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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom Regan |
ISBN: | 025202611X 9780252026119 0252074165 9780252074165 |
OCLC Number: | 43708418 |
Description: | xii, 179 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Ethical theory and animals -- Animal liberation : what's in a name? -- The case for animal rights : a decade's passing -- Mapping human rights -- Putting people in their place -- Patterns of resistance -- Understanding animal rights violence -- Ivory towers should not a prison make -- Work, hypocrisy, and integrity. |
Responsibility: | Tom Regan. |
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"This is a collection of essays, each with bibliographic notes, written by the foremost champion among philosophers of the view that nonhuman animals possess moral rights... Regan's philosophical style is characterized by clarity of expression and an emphasis on cogent argumentation." -- Choice ADVANCE PRAISE "There's no one quite like Regan for building a case for animal rights, using critical analysis to view rights from a moral and a factual approach, assessing the approaches and then defending them." -- Claudette Vaughan, Animal Liberation "Tom Regan is a master of clear argumentation, and here he expresses his views more clearly and incisively than ever. Packed with important insights and observations, Defending Animal Rights is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debates regarding animal rights and related issues." -- Susan Finsen, coauthor of The Animal Rights Movement in America: From Compassion to Respect Read more...


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