About this title: Originally published in 1975, this ethical work defending animals as sentient beings and therefore due certain rights, jumpstarted Singer's notoriety as a polemical philosopher.
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Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Cover has moderate wear, price stickers and scuffing, previous owner's name on inside front cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books
Date Published: 1977-09
ISBN-13:9780380017829ISBN:0380017822
Description: Very Good. Very Light Shelfwear Overall. Slightly Scuffed Covers. Un-Creased Spine. Slight Edgewear. Marks on first page. No Marks in text. pb04s06. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780380017829ISBN:0380017822
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very nice copy. Totally clean and unmarked inside. Slightly tanned pages. The number "25" written on the front cover, otherwise clean covers and spine. Spine creased. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780380017829ISBN:0380017822
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Totally clean and unmarked inside. Light wear to covers and spine. Spine creased. Corners still quite sharp. Very clean solid copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, Inc
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780380017829ISBN:0380017822
Description: Grade: B. Catalog: Non-Fiction General Synopsis: 297 pages. Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work by Peter Singer has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the sh... read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Avon Books
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780380017829ISBN:0380017822
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very good Copy. Text is clean and unmarked. Spine is square and has slight creasing andslight wear. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I read this such a long time ago and don't actually remember a lot of the details--only that it was hugely impactful. Although Singer's role in the modern animal rights movement is hotly debated, there can't be any doubt about the fact that this book was groundbreaking and remains a classic."
"In some ways part of the great American literary genre of Nature Writing, Peter Singer's ANIMAL LIBERATION is thought to be the text that launched the Animal Rights Movement. It is a philosophical treatise having to do with rights in the abstract, human empathy, cruelty, right and wrong, and above all, the logic behind people's reasoning and how people have come to think the way they do about animals, but especially farm animals that are the animals we eat. Singer makes some very good arguments to counter all of the stereotypical notions about vegetarianism and animal rights activism. His work appears to be the basis of the animal rights campaigns by more radical groups like PETA, but he does not necessarily seem to advocate for radical action and instead advocates for rational and deep thinking about our own being in the world. He argues that we are not so far removed from the animal kingdom and that we are within it. His historical and literary knowledge enable him to juxtapose our treatment of animals and arguments about ethical treatment of others with the Feminist Movement from Mary Wollstonecraft onwards, with the moral treatises supporting the emancipation of slaves (and the ways in which Black People were talked about as "brutish"), and the exploitation of resources and the damages this causes to the eart, to other animals, and to ourselves. It is a well-reasoned and well-argued account and can serve as great ammunition for anyone who has ever experienced irrational and uncomfortable conversations with rabid meat-eaters who take vegetarianism as an affront on their rights to eat a lot of meat. This book falls within the Nature Writing genre, in my opinion, because it is filled with the sensitivity towards nature that writers like Muir and others after him have conveyed. It is a long read because it is methodically argued from multiple perspectives, but it is worth the time; it is a real classic."
"the classic that launched the modern animal rights movement. some of it is very disturbing, but it's so well researched and so credible, especially now that the author has become so respected far outside just animal rights supporters, that it is (unfortunately still) one of the very best ways to become an informed consumer and citizen. if you want to avoid this book because of the disturbing and sad practices revealed, but you still eat veal, for example, perhaps your habits and ethics are dissonant. if so, this book, while not easy to read, will probably make it quite easy to break such habits. i had already become a vegetarian when i read this, but i'm sure it has something to do with the fact that i stayed a vegetarian, and how it became so effortless."
""Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink."
-G.K. Chesterton
I love Peter Singer, but ethics and morality are about a human's relationship with another human. The instinct against cruelty to animals arises from the analogy between our species and certain other accessible species -- it is a powerful analogy, an analogy worthy of honoring, but mere analogy nonetheless."
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