Gary Francione

Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A powerful re-examination of the animal rights movement and its shortcomings

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 269
• Erscheinungstermin: September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781566394611
• ISBN-10: 1566394619
• Artikelnr.: 21229427

Autorenporträt

Gary L. Francione is Professor of Law and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach Scholar of Law at Rutgers University Law School, Newark. He is the co-director of the Rutgers Animal Rights Law Center and the author of Animals, Property, and the Law (Temple).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
1. Animal Rights: The Rejection of Instrumentalism
2. The New Welfarists
3. The Philosophical and Historical Origins of New Welfarism
4. The Results of New Welfarism: The "Animal Confusion" Movement
5. The Empirical and Structural Defects of Animal Welfare Theory
6. Is Animal Rights a "Utopian" Theory?
7. Rights Theory: An Incremental Approach
Conclusion
Postscript: Marching Backwards
Notes
Index