Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice: Animal Rights, Human Rights and the Environment

Ted Benton

ISBN 10: 0860915905 / ISBN 13: 9780860915904

Published by Verso, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice: Animal Rights, Human Rights and the Environment
• Publisher: Verso
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860915905
• ISBN 13: 9780860915904
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In this challenging book, Ted Benton takes recent debates about the moral status of animals as a basis for reviewing the discourse of “human rights.” Liberal-individualist views of human rights and advocates of animal rights tend to think of individuals, whether human or animals, in isolation from their social position. This makes them vulnerable to criticisms from the left which emphasize the importance of social relationships to individual well-being.

Benton’s argument supports the important assumption, underpinning the cause for human rights, that humans and other species of animal have much in common, both in the conditions for their well-being and their vulnerability to harm. Both liberal rights theory and its socialist critique fail adequately to theorize these aspects of human vulnerability. Nevertheless, it is argued that, enriched by feminist and ecological insights, a socialist view of rights has much to offer. Lucid and wide-ranging in its argument, Natural Relations enables the outline of an ecological socialist view of rights and justice to begin to take shape.

About the Author

Ted Benton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. His previous books include Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociologies and The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism.