Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Poetic Species
I. Ceasing to Be Animal
1. Zoopoetics: Coetzee's Animals and Philosophy
2. Political Bestiary: On the Uses of Violence
3. Heidegger's Bestiary: The Speechless and Unhistorical Animal
II. Not Yet Human
4. Habermas on Human Cloning: The Debate on the Future of the Species
5. Communicative Freedom and Genetic Engineering
6. We Have Never Been Human, or How We Lost Our Humanity: From Habermas and Derrida to Midgley and Haraway by Way of Agamben
III. Toward a Companion Species Ethics
7. Animal Is to Kantianism As Jew Is to Fascism: Adorno's Bestiary
8. Interspecies Cosmopolitanism
9. Bestiaries of Extinction: Anthropodicy or Anthropohippology
Notes
Index