TITLE:
Defending Animal Rights

AUTHOR:
Tom Regan
Email: Tom_Regan@ncsu.edu

PUBLISHER:
University of Illinois Press
1325 South Oak Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Tel: 217-244-4689
Fax: 217-244-8082
Email: uipress@uillinois.edu
Website: www.press.uillinois.edu

ISBN #:
0-252-026611-X

RETAIL PRICE:
$24.95 U.S.A. (Cloth)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Tom Regan, universally recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal
rights movement, presents a historically important, multifaceted discussion
of some responses to the question, "Do animals have rights?"

More than a contest of wills representing professional and economic
interests, the animal rights debate is also a divisive, enduring topic in
normative ethical theory. Addressing key issues in this sometimes acrimonious
debate, Regan responds thoughtfully to his critics while dismantling the
conception that "all and only" human beings are worthy of the moral status
that is the basis of rights.

In a set of essays that reflects his thinking on animal and human rights over
the past decade, Regan sketches the philosophical positions espoused by those
who want to abolish animal exploitation, reform it to minimize suffering, or
maintain the status quo. He considers the moral grounds for limiting human
freedom when it comes to human interactions with nonhuman animals. He puts
the issue of animal rights in historical context, drawing parallels between
animal rights activism and other social movements, including the antislavery
movement in the nineteenth century and the gay-lesbian struggle today. He
also outlines the challenges posed by deep ecology and ecofeminism to using
animals for human purposes and addresses the ethical dilemma of the animal
rights advocate whose employer uses animals for research.

Systematically unraveling claims that human beings are rational and therefore
entitled to superior moral status, Regan defends the inherent value of all
individuals who are "subjects of a life" and decries the speciesism that
pretends to separate human from nonhuman animals. Independent of any benefits
humans might derive from exploiting animals, Regan shows how, on a
philosophical level, there is no sustainable defense for separating human and
nonhuman animals as beings of absolute, as opposed to instrumental, value.

"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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tom Regan, University Alumni Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at North
Carolina State University, is the author of The Case for Animal Rights, All
That Dwell Therein: Essays on Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics, and
other books.

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