Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights

Described by Jeffrey Masson as 'the single best introduction to animal rights ever written, ' this new book by Tom Regan will structure the animal rights debate for generations to come. In a style at once simple and elegant, Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of 'humane treatment' favored by animal exploiters, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty. Written by the leading philosophical spokesperson for animal rights, Tom Regan's shocking exposZ of animal abuse makes an essential and lasting contribution that will significantly impact the history of animal rights advocacy in America

Author: Tom Regan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 07/07/2005
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.92w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780742549937
ISBN10: 0742549933
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Animal Rights
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Political Science | Public Policy | General

About the Author
Tom Regan is emeritus professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The author of more than twenty books, he is universally recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. Among his most well-known works on animal rights are The Case for Animal Rights (1983), The Struggle for Animal Rights (1987), Defending Animal Rights (2001), and, with Carl Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate (2001).