The Case for Animal Rights and Empty Cages
In 2023 and 2024, CAF hired narrative artist Jennifer Pickens and producer Tony Dipiazza to create audiobooks of two classics by CAF co-founder and philosopher Tom Regan. The audiobooks of The Case for Animal Rights and Empty Cages which came out on the fortieth anniversary and twentieth anniversary respectively of the original publications, are available on many platforms.
The Case for Animal Rights, originally published in 1983 by the University of California Press, is widely considered the foundational philosophical work on animal rights. In addition to the complete text of the revised 2002 edition, the audiobook includes a recording made by Tom Regan in 2001, in which he reflects on why he wrote Case, how it compares with Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, and how Regan’s thinking evolved as he was writing the book. The audiobook also features an essay by philosopher Gary Comstock on Tom Regan’s contribution to, and place within, the history of thinking about our obligations to nonhuman animals over the last half-century. Case is also available as a paperback and an ebook.
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Described by Jeffrey Masson as “the single best introduction to animal rights ever written, Tom Regan’s Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights stands as an essential guide to the ongoing animal rights debate. In a style at once simple and elegant, Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates as portrayed by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of “humane treatment” favored by animal exploiters in both familiar and less well-documented contexts, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty. In so doing, Regan invites readers to join the struggle for animal rights—one person at a time, one step at a time. Written by the leading philosophical spokesperson for animal rights, Tom Regan’s shocking exposé of animal abuse makes an essential and lasting contribution to how animal rights is viewed in the United States and around the world. Empty Cages is available as a paperback and an ebook.
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