Animal liberation: A new ethics for our treatment of animals (A New York review book) - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0394400968 ISBN 13 : 9780394400969

Editeur : Distributed by Random House

Synopsis

Book by Singer Peter

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"It galvanised a generation into action. Groups sprang up around the world, equipped with a new vocabulary, a new set of ethics and a new sense of mission...Singer's book is widely known as the bible of the animal liberation movement." (Independent on Sunday)

"A reasoned plea for the humane treatment of animals that galvanised the animal-rights movement the way the Rachel Carson's Silent Spring drew activists to environmentalism." (New York Times)

"Important and responsible...Everyone ought to read it." (Richard Adams)

"Probably the single most influential document in the history of recent movements concerned with animal welfare" (Guardian)

"In my mind, it is one the most important books of the last 100 years. It expands our moral horizons beyond our own species and is thereby a major evolution in ethics" (Peter Tatchell Ecologist)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

How should we treat non-human animals?

In this immensely powerful and influential book, Peter Singer addresses this simple question with trenchant, dispassionate reasoning. Accompanied by the disturbing evidence of factory farms and laboratories, his answers triggered the birth of the animal rights movement.

In the decades since this landmark classic first appeared, some public attitudes to animals may have changed but our continued abuse of animals in factory farms and as tools for research shows that the underlying ideas Singer exposes as ethically indefensible are still dominating the way we treat animals.As Yuval Harari’s brilliantly argued preface makes clear, this book is as relevant now as the day it was written.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Distributed by Random House
• ISBN 10: 0394400968
• ISBN 13: 9780394400969
• Reliure: Relié