Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword ix
5. The Death of the Animal 1
6. Roundtable I
7. Humanist and Posthumanist Antispeciesism 45
8. No Escape 59
9. Toward an Agnostic Animal Ethics 73
10. Comments on Paola Cavalieri, “A Dialogue on Perfectionism” 85
11. II
12. Notes on Issues Raised by Matthew Calarco 89
13. Pushing Things Forward 93
14. Distracting Difficulties 111
15. On Appetite, the Right to Life, and Rational Ethics 119
16. “On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings” 123
17. Between Life and Rights 135
18. Notes 139