Tom Regan: "The Philosophy of Animal Rights" - various languages available (collection)


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Updated 19 June 2026

Over the years and decades, Tom Regan's booklet The philosophy of animal rights has been translated into several languages. But there doesn't seem to be a list of these publications or which languages it has been translated into.

Presumably, some of the translations were also "just" distributed as photocopied booklets with no ISBN number or other formal record of these existing.


Below is a list of the ones I know of.

English

  • The original version, plus four new commentaries (by Sztybel, Winckler, Ebert, and Koeder; 2026) [free online version] ... also posted on ivu.org



Translations

The translations highlighted in yellow are product of the "Tom Regan 1989 project".

  • Bulgarian: "Философия на правата на животните" (2026) [free online version]
  • Hungarian"Az állatjogok filozófiája(2026) [free online version] [Amazon's kindle KDP does not allow publication of printed books or Kindle ebooks in Hungarian.
  • Swahili: "Falsafa ya haki za wanyama" (2026) [free online version [printed booklets available in Kenia, Tanzania, Uganda and ... coming soon
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Languages coming soon

New translations will be added soon:
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Italian
  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
  • Simplified Chinese
  • French
  • Korean
  • Japanese -- the postscript is already available
  • ...



Also see


Also see the related post on the website of the International Vegetarian Union (IVU).




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