Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Series Editor's Preface

OPENING 1

1. Of Jews and Animals

PART I

2. Living and Being: Descartes’ ‘Animal Spirits’ and Heidegger's Dog

3. The Insistent Dog: Blanchot and the Community without Animals

4. Indefinite Play and ‘The Name of Man’: Anthropocentrism's Deconstruction

PART II

5. What If the Other Were an Animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease

6. Agamben on ‘Jews’ and ‘Animals’

7. Force, Justice and the Jew: Pascal's Pensées 102 and 103

8. Facing Jews

ANOTHER OPENING

9. Animals, Jews

Index