Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

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A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.

Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every day.

The world needs an ethical awakening, a consciousness-raising movement of international proportions. In Justice for Animals, one of the worlds most influential philosophers and humanists Martha C. Nussbaum provides a revolutionary approach to animal rights, ethics, and law.

From dolphins to crows, elephants to octopuses, Nussbaum examines the entire animal kingdom, showcasing the lives of animals with wonder, awe, and compassion to understand how we can create a world in which human beings are truly friends of animals, not exploiters or users. All animals should have a shot at flourishing in their own way. Humans have a collective duty to face and solve animal harm. An urgent call to action and a manual for change, Nussbaums groundbreaking theory directs politics and law to help us meet our ethical responsibilities as no book has done before.

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The most important book on animal ethics written to date,JusticeforAnimalsis a brilliant and remarkably comprehensive exploration of the ethical issues connected with human treatment of nonhumans. Amilestone in the field.
Thomas I. White, author ofIn Defense of Dolphins

With urgent clarity, Martha Nussbaum explains why we must and how we can take responsibilityforthe multi-species world that is our reality.JusticeForAnimalsis a celebration of the human potentialforlove and mutuality and a song of hope, as much as it is a steely-eyed analysis of our callous dominance of the nonhuman world.
Amy Linch, Penn State University

Martha Nussbaums work has changed the humanities, but in this bookher focus is startling, born of an ardent loveforher late daughter andforallanimalson Earth.
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Case Western Reserve University,and Senior Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project

Martha Nussbaum takes an honest look at howanimalsmay survive in a human-dominated world, and lays out a plan of action to help creatures great and small in important and critical ways.
Dr.Denise Herzing, Founder and Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project

A provocative book. Nussbaum lays out a foundationforthe political rights ofanimalsand asks what creating a world whereanimalscould be our friends would look like. An essential readforanyone interested in what we owe to our fellow creatures.
NicolasDelon, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, New College of Florida

The morality of the human-animal relation urgently needs updating. We cant wishfora more insightful and compassionate guide than philosopher Martha Nussbaum. She urges us to look beyond pain and pleasure and to consider allanimals, not just those that resemble us. Each species specific needs and capabilities offer a guide of how they should be treated.
Frans de Waal, author ofDifferent: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

"A thought-provoking guide to ethical coexistence with the diverse creatures of Earth."
Kirkus Reviews

"This trenchant and masterful blend of political analysis, philosophical study, and call to action is a must-read.
Publishers Weekly, starred review

Here, as in other works, her arguments are thorough, elegantly written, and compelling so finely tuned that Aristotle himself would need to be in top form to engage her on the subject. [] Sure to become a classic of ethics.
Matthew Scully,National Review

Brilliant and accessible work. [] All readers, not only readers already committed to animal rights, ought to read Nussbaums new book.
Ross Collin,Chicago Review of Books

Nussbaums writing is energetic and direct, full of stories and anecdotes. The book is pleasingly constructive [] it is a virtue of this book that the mind of the author is so clearly on display.
Dale Jamieson,Science

Author Bio

Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School of the University of Chicago. She gave the 2016 Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities and won the 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. The 2018 Berggruen Prize in Philosophy and Culture, and the 2020 Holberg Prize. These three prizes are regarded as the most prestigious awards available in fields not eligible for a Nobel. She has written more than twenty-two books, includingUpheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions;Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice;Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities; andThe Monarchy of Fear.