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Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement.
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Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is the author ofAnimal Liberation, first published in 1975, and is widely credited with triggering the modern animal rights movement. HisPractical Ethics is one of the most widely used texts in applied ethics, andRethinking Life and Death received the 1995 National Book Council's Banjo Award for non-fiction. He is also editor of four other titles for Blackwell:A Companion to Ethics (1991), A Companion to Bioethics (with Helga Kuhse, 1999),The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature (with Renata Singer, 2005), andBioethics: An Anthology (with Helga Kuhse, 2nd edn., 2006).
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In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave brings together the best current ethical thinking about animals. Edited by Peter Singer, who made “speciesism” an international issue in 1975 when he published Animal Liberation, this new book presents the state of the animal movement that his classic work helped to inspire.
Long hailed as a brilliant and controversial philosopher, Singer has assembled incisive new articles by philosophers and by activists. In Defense of Animals is sure to inform and inspire all who want to understand, or contribute to, the unfolding moral revolution in the way we treat animals.
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