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Rain without thunder: the ideology of the animal rights movement

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Rights and Welfare 1. Rights: The Rejection of Instrumentalism 2. The New Welfarists 3. The Philosophical and Historical Origins of New Welfarism 4. The Results of New Welfarism: The Animal Confusion Movement 5. The Empirical and Structural Defects of Welfare Theory 6. Is Rights a Utopian Theory? 7. Rights Theory: An Incremental Approach Conclusion Postscript: Marching Backwards Notes Index

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Key concepts: Thunder, Ideology, Movement (music), Animal rights, Political science, History, Art, Aesthetics