Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For AnimalsRattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse. |
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Nutzerbericht - GalenWiley - LibraryThingRattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
RATTLING THE CAGE: Toward Legal Rights for Animals
Nutzerbericht - KirkusA potentially historic work on the legal case for animal rights that shoots itself in the paw with shrill terms and tactics. Wise, who teaches animal-rights law at Harvard Law School and elsewhere, is ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
The Problem with Being a Thing | 1 |
Trapped in a Universe That No Longer Exists | 9 |
The Legal Thinghood of Nonhuman Animals | 23 |
Border Crossings | 35 |
What Are Legal Rights? | 49 |
Liberty and Equality | 63 |
The Common Law | 89 |
Consciousness Taxonomy and Minds | 119 |
Seasons of the Mind | 163 |
Chimpanzee and Bonobo Minds | 179 |
Bending Toward Justice | 239 |
Other Cages Other Peaks | 267 |
Notes | 271 |
About the Author | 339 |
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