Animals, Politics and Morality
Robert Garner(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 18. March 1993
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-7190-3574-6 (ISBN)
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Description
Our treatment of, and attitudes towards, animals vary from respect and concern at one end of the scale to cruelty and neglect at the other. Acts of violence to animals are countered by acts of violence on the behalf of animals. This book is about these apparently contradictory responses. It seeks to examine moral theories which endeavour to tell us how we ought to treat animals as well as how individuals and the law actually do treat them. In this work the author combines his professional knowledge as a political scientist with his interest in, and concern for, the plight of animals and our moral obligations towards them. He puts his case for fundamental changes in the way we think about, and behave towards, the other species with whom we share the planet.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
x,258p
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-3574-6 (9780719035746)
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Manchester University Press
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Content
Animals and moral theory; radicalism and revival - the animal protection movement since the 1970s; captives, companions and the law; animal agriculture; animals, medical research and consumer protection; wildlife conservation; animal protection strategies - constitutional routes to change, animal liberation and direct action.