Today, we tend to react skeptically to claims about our access to the animal mind, the political importance of compassion, and the natural origins of community.

This “passionately eloquent” study shows the influence of eighteenth-century poetry on political theory, philosophy, and early discourse on animal rights (H

Do all animals have rights? Is it morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research, or rabbits and cows as food? How ought we resolve conflicts between the

THE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.