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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.
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 "The philosophy of animal rights" (1989) [PDF]
- 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".
- Bengali (Bangla) "প্রাণী-অধিকার দর্শন" (2018) [PDF] [printed booklets available in Bangladesh]
- Bulgarian: "Философия на правата на животните" (2026) [free online version]
- Catalan: "La filosofia dels drets dels animals" (2026) [free online version] [printed book]
- French: "La philosophie des droits des animaux" (1991) [PDF]
- German: "Der Grundgedanke der Tierrechte" (2003) [only the first half of the boolet (?) - not available online]
- German: "Tom Regan: Die Philosophie der Tierrechte" (2025) [print version] [free online version] ... also posted here
- Hungarian: "Az állatjogok filozófiája" (2026) [free online version] [Amazon's kindle KDP does not allow publication of printed books or Kindle ebooks in Hungarian.
- Portuguese: the original version, plus four commentaries (2026) [free online version] ... also posted on guiavegano.com.br and vegetarianismo-com.br ... [kindle ebook] [printed book] [printed booklets available in Angola]
- Slovenian: "Pravice živali : filozofske postavke" (1999 [?]) [not available online (?)]
- Serbian: the original version, plus four commentaries (2026) [free online version]
- Spanish: the original version, plus four commentaries (2026) [free online version] [printed book]
- Vietnamese: the original version, plus four commentaries (2026) [free online version]
- Swahili: "Falsafa ya haki za wanyama" (2026) [free online version] [printed booklets available in Kenia, Tanzania, Uganda and ... coming soon]
(Note: The links to Amazon are not Amazon affiliate links.)
- French: "La philosophie des droits des animaux" (1991) [PDF]
- German: "Tom Regan: Die Philosophie der Tierrechte" (2025) [print version] [free online version] ... also posted here
- Hungarian: "Az állatjogok filozófiája" (2026) [free online version] [Amazon's kindle KDP does not allow publication of printed books or Kindle ebooks in Hungarian.
- Portuguese: the original version, plus four commentaries (2026) [free online version] ... also posted on guiavegano.com.br and vegetarianismo-com.br ... [kindle ebook] [printed book] [printed booklets available in Angola]
- Slovenian: "Pravice živali : filozofske postavke" (1999 [?]) [not available online (?)]
- Serbian: the original version, plus four commentaries (2026) [free online version]
- Spanish: the original version, plus four commentaries (2026) [free online version] [printed book]
- Vietnamese: the original version, plus four commentaries (2026) [free online version]
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).
