In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405119403 ISBN 13: 9781405119405

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

"In 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.

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Review:

"A masterly overview of the field, while the essays on animal-rights activism are engaging and full of good sense" -- J. M. Coetzee, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2005

"Essential reading for anyone who cares deeply about the lives of animals." -- Jeffrey Masson, author of The Pig Who Sang to the Moon, 2005

"What an exquisite collection of fine writers with compelling philosophies, philosophies that translate into positive ways to change society" -- Ingrid Newkirk, President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) 2005

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1405119403
• ISBN 13: 9781405119405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Singer Peter