In Defense of Animals

The Second Wave
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1940-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years agoBrings together new, incisive articles by philosophers and activists chronicling the evolution of the animal rights movementEssays explore new ways of measuring animal suffering, reassess the question of personhood, and draw highlight tales of effective advocacyLays out “Ten Tips for Activists”, taking the reader beyond ethical theory and into the day-to-day campaigns for animal rightsIn Defense of Animals: The Second Wave brings together the best current ethical thinking about animals. Edited by Peter Singer, who made “speciesism” an international issue in 1975 when he published Animal Liberation, this new book presents the state of the animal movement that his classic work helped to inspire.Long hailed as a brilliant and controversial philosopher, Singer has assembled incisive new articles by philosophers and by activists. In Defense of Animals is sure to inform and inspire all who want to understand, or contribute to, the unfolding moral revolution in the way we treat animals.

Zielgruppe

Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and specialists in applied ethics, general readers and animal rights campaigners

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Über Autor(innen)

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is the author of Animal Liberation, first published in 1975, and is widely credited with triggering the modern animal rights movement. His Practical Ethics is one of the most widely used texts in applied ethics, and Rethinking Life and Death received the 1995 National Book Council's Banjo Award for non-fiction. He is also editor of four other titles for Blackwell: A Companion to Ethics (1991), A Companion to Bioethics (with Helga Kuhse, 1999), The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature (with Renata Singer, 2005), and Bioethics: An Anthology (with Helga Kuhse, 2nd edn., 2006).