Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights

by Sue Donaldson, Will Kymlicka, Kymlicka Will

Book Overview

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of moral theory and applied ethics to the realm of political theory, focusing on the relational obligations that arise from the varied ways that animals relate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199599661
• ISBN13: 9780199599660
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"