IN DEFENCE OF ANIMALS: The Second Wave - Softcover

Singer, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 063113896X ISBN 13: 9780631138969

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1985

Synopsis

Peter Singer made animal rights an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years ago. In this revised edition, he brings together new essays by philosophers and activists, chronicling new thoughts on animal suffering, reassessing the question of personhood, and highlighting tales of effective advocacy. In addition, he lays out 'Ten Tips for Activists', taking the reader beyond ethical theory and into the day-to-day campaigns for animal rights.

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About the Author

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is author of Animal Liberation, first published in 1975, and is widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement. His Companion to Ethics is one of the most widely used texts in ethics, and Rethinking Life and Death received the 1995 National Book Council's Banjo Award for non-fiction. He was the foundation president of the International Association of Bioethics.

From the Back Cover

Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement.

• 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 ago
• Essays explore new ways of measuring animal suffering, reassess the question of personhood, and draw highlight tales of effective advocacy
• Lays out “Ten Tips for Activists”, taking the reader beyond ethical theory and into the day-to-day campaigns for animal rights

• 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 ago
• Essays explore new ways of measuring animal suffering, reassess the question of personhood, and draw highlight tales of effective advocacy
• Lays out “Ten Tips for Activists”, taking the reader beyond ethical theory and into the day-to-day campaigns for animal rights

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 063113896X
• ISBN 13: 9780631138969
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240