Against Liberation: Putting Animals in Perspective

By Michael P Leahy and Michael P.T. Leahy

Book Overview

The Western world is currently gripped by an obsessive concern for the rights of animals - their uses and abuses. In this book, Leahy argues that this is a movement based upon a series of fundamental misconceptions about the basic nature of animals. This is a radical philosophical questioning of prevailing views on animal rights, which credit animals with a self-consciousness like ours. Leahy's conclusions have implications for issues such as bloodsports, meat eating and fur trading.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415035848
• ISBN13: 9780415035842
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher