Animal lessons: how they teach us to be human

Introduction : biting the hand that feeds you : the role of animals in philosophies of man

What's wrong with animal rights?

The right to remain silent

Animal pedagogy

You are what you eat : Rousseau's cat

Say the human responded : Herder's sheep

Difference "worthy of its name"

"Hair of the dog" : Derrida's and Rousseau's good taste

Sexual difference, animal difference : Derrida's sexy silkworm

It's our fault

The beaver's struggle with species-being : De Beauvoir and the praying mantis

Answering the call of nature : Lacan walking the dog

Estranged kinship

The abyss between humans and animals : Heidegger puts the bee in being

"Strange kinship" : Merleau-Ponty's sensuous stickleback

Stopping the anthropological machine : Agamben's ticktocking tick

Psychoanalysis and the science of kinship

Psychoanalysis as animal by-product : Freud's zoophilia

Animal abjects, maternal abjects : Kristeva's strays

Conclusion: sustainable ethics.

Introduction : biting the hand that feeds you : the role of animals in philosophies of man

What's wrong with animal rights?

The right to remain silent

Animal pedagogy

You are what you eat : Rousseau's cat

Say the human responded : Herder's sheep

Difference "worthy of its name"

"Hair of the dog" : Derrida's and Rousseau's good taste

Sexual difference, animal difference : Derrida's sexy silkworm

It's our fault

The beaver's struggle with species-being : De Beauvoir and the praying mantis

Answering the call of nature : Lacan walking the dog

Estranged kinship

The abyss between humans and animals : Heidegger puts the bee in being

"Strange kinship" : Merleau-Ponty's sensuous stickleback

Stopping the anthropological machine : Agamben's ticktocking tick

Psychoanalysis and the science of kinship

Psychoanalysis as animal by-product : Freud's zoophilia

Animal abjects, maternal abjects : Kristeva's strays

Conclusion: sustainable ethics.