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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.