338 pp., xi. '1' in number line. Following the Introduction by Sunstein, "What Are Animal Rights?", Contents divided into 14 Essays in two Parts: PART I: CURRENT DEBATES (1) Steven M. Wise, "Animal Rights, One Step at a Time"; (2) Richard A. Posner, "Animal Rights: Legal, Philosophical, and Pragmatic Perspectives"; (3) Peter Singer, "Ethics beyond species and beyond Instincts: A Response to Richard Posner"; (4) Cora Diamond, "Eating Meat and Eating People"; (5) Gary L. Francione, "Animals--Property or Persons?"; (6) Richard A. Epstein, "Animals as Objects, or Subjects, of Rights"; (7) James Rachels, "Drawing Lines"; (8) Lesley J. Rogers and Gisela Kaplan, "All Animals are NOT Equal: The Interface between Scientific Knowledge andLegislation for Animal Rights"; PART II: NEW DIRECTIONS (9) David J. Wolfson and Mariann Sullivan, "Foxes in the Hen House: Animals, Agribusiness, and the Law: A Modern American Fable"; (10) David Favre, "A New Property Status for Animals: Equitable Self-Ownership"; (11) Cass R. Sunstein, "Can Animals Sue?"; (12) Catharine A. MacKinnon, "Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights"; (13) Elizabeth Anderson, "Animal 'Rights and the Values of Nonhuman Life"; (14) Martha C. Nussbaum, "Beyond ' Compassion and Humanity ' : Justice for Nonhuman Animals"; [Notes at ends of Essays]; Bibliographic Essay, pp. 321-324; Index, pp. 325-338. Dark green boards with brilliant silver lettering on spine. Glossy dustwrapper with color photo-illustration of two zebras running in the Wild (top half front cover); Title lettering and Editor names lettering in light chartreuse at middle lft front cover and at bottom left front cover, respectively. FLAWLESS. UNREAD. (NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks.) Gift-Giving Quality.

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Title: Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195152174
ISBN 13: 9780195152173
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Millions of people live with cats, dogs, and other pets, which they treat as members of their families. But through their daily behavior, people who love those pets, and greatly care about their welfare, help ensure short and painful lives for millions, even billions of animals that cannot easily be distinguished from dogs and cats. Today, the overwhelming percentage of animals with whom Westerners interact are raised for food. Countless animals endure lives of relentless misery and die often torturous deaths.

The use of animals by human beings, often for important human purposes, has forced uncomfortable questions to center stage: Should people change their behavior? Should the law promote animal welfare? Should animals have legal rights? Should animals continue to be counted as "property"? What reforms make sense?

Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is being fundamentally rethought. This book offers a state-of-the-art treatment of that rethinking.

Contributors include:
Elizabeth Anderson
Cora Diamond
Richard A. Epstein
David Favre
Gary L. Francione
Gisela Kaplan
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Richard A. Posner
James Rachels^l Lesley J. Rogers
Peter Singer
Mariann Sullivan
Stephen M. Wise
David J. Wolfson

About the Author

Cass R. Sunstein is Karl Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Together, they previously edited Clones and Cloning. They are frequent contributors to popular journals and newspapers. . Sunstein's recent books include Why Societies Need Dissent and Designing Democracy; Nussbaum is recently author of Upheavals of Thought and For Love of Country.

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