Peter Singer

Broschiertes Buch

Animal Liberation

Beschreibung

How should we treat non-human animals? In this book, the author 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.

Autor

Peter Singer has been called the most influential philosopher alive. He is professor of bioethics at Princeton University and has published numerous books, including The Life You Can Save (2009), The Most Good You Can Do (2015) and Ethics in the Real World (2016). He became well known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975 and has been a leading thinker and campaigner in the field of animal rights ever since. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923. In 2012 Singer was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, his country's highest civilian honour, and in 2021 he was awarded the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bodley Head / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 234488, 721297
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 134mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781847923844
• ISBN-10: 1847923844
• Artikelnr.: 43183465

Rezensionen

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