Animal Liberation Now

Animal Liberation Now … is rightly a classic: not merely a book but … a catalyst to a movement … [it] remains radical * Times Literary Supplement *There’s a reason Animal Liberation hasn’t gone out of print since the Seventies - [Singer] makes for a persuasive argument, and one that’s now better suited to our times * Independent *For those with an interest in culture, ethics and animals … Animal Liberation Now is essential reading * The Conversation *One the most important books of the last 100 years. It expands our moral horizons beyond our own species * Ecologist *A reasoned plea for the humane treatment of animals that galvanised the animal rights movement the way the Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring drew activists to environmentalism * The New York Times *[This] book is a reminder that plain, well-sourced facts, starkly presented, often speak louder than philosophical arguments … Animal Liberation and Animal Liberation Now owe their undeniable power to the same basic source: to know the facts is to see at once that change is needed * Nature *

Peter Singer has been called the most influential philosopher alive. He is professor of bioethics at Princeton University and has published numerous books, including The Life You Can Save (2009), The Most Good You Can Do (2015) and Ethics in the Real World (2016). He became well known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975 and has been a leading thinker and campaigner in the field of animal rights ever since. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine’s list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923. In 2012 Singer was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, his country’s highest civilian honour, and in 2021 he was awarded the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture.