CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction:
Biting the Hand That Feeds You: The Role of Animals in Philosophies of Man

PART ONE  What’s Wrong with Animal Rights?

1

The Right to Remain Silent

PART TWO  Animal Pedagogy

2

You Are What You Eat: Rousseau’s Cat

3

Say the Human Responded: Herder’s Sheep

PART THREE  Difference “Worthy of Its Name”

4

“Hair of the Dog”:
Derrida’s and Rousseau’s Good Taste

5

Sexual Difference, Animal Difference:
Derrida’s Sexy Silkworm

PART FOUR  It’s Our Fault

6

The Beaver’s Struggle with Species-Being:
De Beauvoir and the Praying Mantis

7

Answering the Call of Nature:
Lacan Walking the Dog

PART FIVE Estranged Kinship

8

The Abyss Between Humans and Animals:
Heidegger Puts the Bee in Being

9

“Strange Kinship”:
Merleau-Ponty’s Sensuous Stickleback

10

Stopping the Anthropological Machine:
Agamben’s Ticktocking Tick

PART SIX  Psychoanalysis and the Science of Kinship

11

Psychoanalysis as Animal By-product:
Freud’s Zoophilia

12

Animal Abjects, Maternal Abjects:
Kristeva’s Strays

Conclusion: Sustainable Ethics

Notes
Bibliography
Index