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

Updated 16 March 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 "The philosophy of animal rights" (1989) [PDF]

• the original version, plus four new commentaries (2026) [free online version]

Translations

• Bengali (Bangla) "প্রাণী-অধিকার দর্শন" (2018) [PDF]

• 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

• Portuguese: the original version, plus four commentaries (2026) [free online version] ... also posted on guiavegano.com.br and vegetarianismo-com.br

• Slovenian: "Pravice živali : filozofske postavke" (1999 [?]) [not available online (?)]

• Spanish: the original version, plus four commentaries (2026) [free online version]

• Swahili: "Msimamo wa Haki za Wanyama" (2026) [free online version]

Languages coming soon

New translations will be added soon:

• Hungarian
• Catalan - already available online
• Italian
• Hebrew
• Vietnamese
• Korean
• Japanese
• Simplified Chinese
• Polish
• French
• Russian
• ...

Also see

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

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