Matthew Calarco is professor of philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. His books include Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida (Columbia, 2008) and Beyond the Anthropological Difference (2020).

• Introduction1. Plato’s Pigs2. Aristotle’s Wonderful Animals3. Cynicism’s Dogs4. Jainism’s Birds5. Plutarch’s Grunter6. Descartes’s Beast-Machine7. Kant’s Elephants8. Bentham’s Suffering Animal9. Nietzsche’s Overhuman Animal10. Derrida’s Cat11. Adams’s Absent Referent12. Plumwood’s Crocodile13. Haraway’s Companion SpeciesNotesIndex

An elegant dive into philosophical perspectives on the human and the animal, ranging from ancient traditions to ecofeminism. Calarco intersperses new insights on animal capacities for moral agency, emotions, and language to support an argument for veganism. The result is a compelling read that invokes a sense of wonder before the mysteries of our fellow creatures.

Matthew Calarco is professor of philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. His books include Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida (Columbia, 2008) and Beyond the Anthropological Difference (2020).

• Introduction1. Plato’s Pigs2. Aristotle’s Wonderful Animals3. Cynicism’s Dogs4. Jainism’s Birds5. Plutarch’s Grunter6. Descartes’s Beast-Machine7. Kant’s Elephants8. Bentham’s Suffering Animal9. Nietzsche’s Overhuman Animal10. Derrida’s Cat11. Adams’s Absent Referent12. Plumwood’s Crocodile13. Haraway’s Companion SpeciesNotesIndex

An elegant dive into philosophical perspectives on the human and the animal, ranging from ancient traditions to ecofeminism. Calarco intersperses new insights on animal capacities for moral agency, emotions, and language to support an argument for veganism. The result is a compelling read that invokes a sense of wonder before the mysteries of our fellow creatures.

Matthew Calarco is professor of philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. His books include Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida (Columbia, 2008) and Beyond the Anthropological Difference (2020).

• Introduction1. Plato’s Pigs2. Aristotle’s Wonderful Animals3. Cynicism’s Dogs4. Jainism’s Birds5. Plutarch’s Grunter6. Descartes’s Beast-Machine7. Kant’s Elephants8. Bentham’s Suffering Animal9. Nietzsche’s Overhuman Animal10. Derrida’s Cat11. Adams’s Absent Referent12. Plumwood’s Crocodile13. Haraway’s Companion SpeciesNotesIndex

An elegant dive into philosophical perspectives on the human and the animal, ranging from ancient traditions to ecofeminism. Calarco intersperses new insights on animal capacities for moral agency, emotions, and language to support an argument for veganism. The result is a compelling read that invokes a sense of wonder before the mysteries of our fellow creatures.