abyss, rhetoric of

Adams, Carol

Agamben, Giorgio; animal language, view of; anthropocentrism of; anthropological machine, concept of; antihumanism of; bare life, concept of; coming community, concept of; Dasein, view of; exposition, concept of; infancy, concept of; unsavable life, concept of; Works: “The Face,”; Homo Sacer series; Infancy and History; Language and Death; L’aperto: L’uomo e l’animale (The Open: Man and Animal)

alterity: of animals; of Other

altruism: among nonhuman animals; biological analysis of; selfish-gene theory. See also animal ethics; ethics

Anglo-American philosophy

animal activists, as “domestic terrorists,”

animal ethics; environmental issues and; extent of; universal ethical consideration. See also altruism; ethics

animalitas

animality; world, relationship to

Animal Liberation (Singer)

animal protection movement

animal rationale

animal rights philosophy

animal rights politics

animals: alterity of; altruism among; Being of, on animal’s terms; communication as fully linguistic; fascination for; gaze of; as humanized; living conditions of; plural singularity of; privileging of; resistance to subjection; singularity of; subjectivity of; “what is” and

animal studies

animot

anthropocentrism: of Agamben; becoming-animalas challenge to; exclusionary practices; of Heidegger; of Levinas; limits of human knowledge; politics of; rupture in. See also metaphysical anthropocentrism

anthropological machine; Heidegger and; question of the animal and; tools for jamming

antihumanism

Aristotle

“as” structure

automatons, animals as

Badiou, Alain

Baker, Steve

bare life, concept of

Bataille, Georges

becoming-animal

becoming-imperceptible

Being: of animals; of beings; of beings other than human; event of; truth of

Being and Time (Heidegger)

being-for-the-Other

being-toward-death

Benjamin, Walter

Bentham, Jeremy

Benveniste, Émile

Berger, Johnn.

biological continuism

biological sciences

bios

Birch, Thomas

body

carnophallogocentrism

coming community, concept of

commonsense notions of world

communal cooperation, concept of

compassion toward animals

concentration camps

Continental philosophy; Heidegger’s influence on; silent on question of animal

“Cyborg Manifesto, A” (Haraway)

Darwin, Charles; The Descent of Man; “The Paradox of Morality,”

Darwinism

Dasein; Agamben’s view; being-toward-death; as Dasein-centric; existentia; finitude, modality of; human; proximity with animal life; transposed into other animals; world and

Dawkins, Richard

death, modes of

deconstructionism; vegetarianism linked with

Deleuze, Gillesn.

democracy, totalitarianism and

Derrida, Jacques; animal figures in works of; animals as subjects; animot; calling into question, in work of; carnophallogocentrism; compassion toward animals, view of; différance; ethicopolitical turn; general theoretical account of; Heidegger, view of; importance of question of the animal to; infrastructures; lack of scholarly attention to focus on animals; metaphysics of presence and; ontotheological humanism, view of; positive projects of; publication of binary oppositions; rigorous distinctions; suffering, view of; suffering of animals, view of; thinking at limits of philosophy; violence toward animals, view of; Works: “The Animal That Therefore I Am,”; “The Ends of Man,”; essay on Levinas (1964); “Geschlecht” articles; Glas; Of Grammatology

dialectic at a standstill

différance

dignity

disclosure

dogs, altruistic responses of

domestic animals, world of

Duino Elegíes (Rilke)

egoism: interruption of by Other; other calls into question; selfishness of genes

ek-sistence

end of metaphysics

environmental issues

Ereignis

essentia

essentialism; critique of; of Heidegger; strategic; world relations of animals and

ethical vegetarianism

ethics: as agnostic; biological drives, suspension of; face of Other and; includes animals; moral considerability; proto-ethical dimension of animal question; responsivity and; universal ethical consideration. See also altruism; animal ethics

ethologists

event of Being

evolutionary theory

existence; eksistence; modes of

existentia

exposition

face of animal Other; undeniable encounter with

face of Other

feminine, the

finitude

Fontenay, Elisabeth de

Francione, Gary

Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, The (Heidegger); communal cooperation, concept of; dogmatism of; world, concept of

gaze, of animal

genes

genocides, animal

Guattari, Félix

Haraway, Donna

Hebrew Bible, animal illustrations

Heidegger, Martin: Agamben’s view of; animal rationale, view of; anthropocentrism, reinforcement of; anthropocentrism of; anthropological machine and; commonsense notions, analysis of; communal cooperation, concept of; death, modes of; Derrida’s view of,; dogmatism of; ek-sistence, concept of; essentialism of; human-animal distinction, view of; humanitas and animalitas; influence on Continental philosophy; mechanized food industry remark; Nietzsche, analysis of; nonanthropocentric analysis of animal Being,; privative interpretation of animal life; world, concept of; Works: An Introduction to Metaphysics; “Letterson ‘Humanism,’” ; Parmenides lectures; “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth,” . See also Being and Time; Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics

homo humanus

human-animal distinction; as abyssal; altruism and; capacities of human and animals; Heidegger’s view; hierarchical versions of; historical and genealogical analysis of; human-animal homogeneity; impossibility of; no longer needed; philosophy and science, relationship between; postmetaphysical and; rupture in; as simplistic; strategic disruption of metaphysical anthropocentrism

humanism; anthropological machine and; Being and; complicity with dogmatic metaphysics; hyperhumanism; metaphysical. See also metaphysical humanism; ontotheological humanism

humanitas

humans: animal rationale concept of; as animals having language; biologistic analysis of; Dasein,; as deprived of language; as ethical concept; limits of; marginalized

hyperhumanism

identity politics

incrementalist approach

infancy, concept of

inherent value

interests of animals

interruption; kinds of

intersubjectivity

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Bentham)

invention

justice, deconstruction as

Kafka, Franz

knowledge, perspectival character of

Krell, David

Lacoue-Labarthe, Phillipe

language; animal communication as fully linguistic; conceptualization, resistance to; human as animal having; humans as deprived of; political and social life and; subjectivity constituted by; Voice and; zōn logon echon

left, fragmentation of

legal institutions, limits of

Levinas, Emmanuel; agnosticism of; animals incapable of ethical response; anthropocentrism of; Darwin, view of; Derrida’s essay on; dog in concentration camp story; face of the Other; politics and ethics in work of; universal consideration, concept of; Works: “Is Ontology Fundamental?”; “The Paradox of Morality,”; Totality and Infinity

linguistic idealism

logos

madness

marginalized humans

mechanized food industry

metaphysical anthropocentrism; of Levinas; from metaphysical humanism to; reversal of; strategic disruption of

metaphysical humanism; humanitas and animalitas

metaphysics of presence

metaphysics of subjectivity; will to power and See also subjectivity

missing link

modernity, subject of

moral considerability

“Moral Considerability and Universal Consideration” (Birch)

moral philosophy

moral standing of animals

nakedness, human cognizance of

Nancy, Jean-Luc

narcissism, human

natural selection

Nazis; Holocaust, comparison of animal slaughter with

neohumanism

Nietzsche, Friedrich; biological reading of; on infinite interpretations; reversal of human-animal distinction; will to power; Works: The Gay Science; “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense,”

nihilism

nonanthropocentric thought: in Agamben; in Derrida; in Heidegger; in Levinas

Oedipal animal

ontotheological humanism; anthropocentric dimensions of

open, the

Other: as always human; animal, gaze of; animal face of; being-for; calls egoism into question; ethical response to; face of; impossibility of nonviolent relation to; recognition, dialectic of; resistance to; Same-Other relation; universal consideration and

pack animal

philosophy: of animal rights; faced by animal; moral; role in animal studies; science, relationship with; thinking at limits of. See also Continental philosophy

Plato

political and legal institutions, anthropocentric constraints on

politics: of animal rights; exposition and; identity politics; language and; subjectivity and

Politics (Aristotle)

postphenomenological discourse

presence; metaphysics of; self-presence

presubjective thought

privative interpretation of animal life

pro-animal discourse, reliance on anthropocentric models

propriety

question of the animal; anthropological machine and; proto-ethical dimension of; as response to interactive encounter

ratio

recognition, dialectic of

reference

Regan, Tom

respect

responsibility

responsivity

rights approach

Rilke, Rainer Maria; reversal of human-animal distinction

Roudinesco, Elisabeth

Same-Other relation

science: accounts of animals; biological sciences; philosophy, relationship with

Searle, John

Seinsfrage

self-identity

Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins)

self-presence

sentience

shame

Singer, Peter

social instincts

State animal

strategic essentialism

struggle for existence

subjectivity; of animal; animal rationale and; carnophallogocentrism; human, focus on; politics and; presubjective conditions. See also metaphysics of subjectivity

subjects-of-a-life

suffering: as response to interruptive encounter; value hierarchies and; vulnerability

things, quasi-ethical presence

thinking, at limits of philosophy

Thorpe, William

thought, as thought of the event

totalitarianism, democracy and

transcendence

transposition of Dasein

truth; of Being

Uexküll, Jakob von

unconcealment

universal ethical consideration

universalism

unsavable life, concept of

utilitarianism

veganism

vegetarianismn; arguments against; deconstruction linked with

violence toward animals; carnophallogocentrism; causal factors behind; increase in; interventionist; Nazi Holocaust, comparison with

Voice

Waal, Frans de

welfarist approach

Wills, David

will to power

Wood, David

world, concept of; access to world

Žižek, Slavoj

zoē

zōon logon echon