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Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, French Thinking about Animals opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies. These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw on anthropology, ethology, geography, history, legal studies, phenomenology, and philosophy to interrogate human-animal relationships. They explore the many ways in which animals signify in French history, society, and intellectual history, illustrating the exciting new perspectives being developed about the animal question in the French-speaking world today. Built on the strength and diversity of these contributions, French Thinking about Animals demonstrates the interdisciplinary and internationalism that are needed if we hope to transform the interactions of humans and nonhuman animals in contemporary society.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Other Works in Series, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Foreword
  2. Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, Translated by Stephanie Posthumus
  3. pp. vii-xiv
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xv-xxii
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  1. Part 1. Animal Histories
  1. Building an Animal History
  2. Éric Baratay, translated by Stephanie Posthumus
  3. pp. 3-14
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  1. A Tale of Three Chameleons: The Animal between Science and Literature in the Age of Louis XIV
  2. Peter Sahlins
  3. pp. 15-30
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  1. The Colonial Zoo
  2. Walter Putnam
  3. pp. 31-46
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  1. Part 2. Animal Philosophies and Representations
  1. The Unexpected Resemblance between Dualism and Continuism, or How to Break a Philosophical Stalemate
  2. Florence Burgat, translated by Dantzel Cenatiempo
  3. pp. 49-60
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  1. Like the Fingers of the Hand: Thinking the Human in the Texture of Animality
  2. Dominique Lestel, translated by Matthew Chrulew and Jeffrey Bussolini
  3. pp. 61-74
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  1. Animality and Contemporary French Literary Studies: Overview and Perspectives
  2. Anne Simon, translated by Céline Maillard and Stephanie Posthumus
  3. pp. 75-88
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  1. Part 3. Animal Intimacies
  1. Why “I Had Not Read Derrida”: Often Too Close, Always Too Far Away
  2. Vinciane Despret, translated by Greta D’amico and Stephanie Posthumus
  3. pp. 91-104
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  1. Chercher la chatte: Derrida’s Queer Feminine Animality
  2. Carla Freccero
  3. pp. 105-120
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  1. Paternalism or Legal Protection of Animals? Bestiality and the French Judicial System
  2. Marcela Iacub, translated by Vinay Swamy
  3. pp. 121-132
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  1. Part 4. Animals and Environment
  1. On Being Living Beings: Renewing Perceptions of Our World, Our Society, and Ourselves
  2. Isabelle Delannoy, translated by Mariève Isabel
  3. pp. 135-148
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  1. The Greenway: A Study of Shared Animal/Human Mobility
  2. Nathalie Blanc, translated by Christina Sutton and Louisa Mackenzie
  3. pp. 149-162
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  1. Wild, Domestic, or Technical: What Status for Animals?
  2. Marie-Hélène Parizeau, translated by Stephanie Posthumus
  3. pp. 163-178
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 179-192
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 193-196
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 197-210
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