Face to Face with Animals

Peter Atterton is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. He is the coeditor (with Matthew Calarco) of Radicalizing Levinas, also published by SUNY Press. Tamra Wright is Director of Academic Studies at the London School of Jewish Studies and the author of The Twilight of Jewish Philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas' Ethical Hermeneutics.

"Face to Face with Animals is an extraordinarily important and timely contribution. Although the question of the animal has weighed heavily upon Levinas scholars for more than two decades, it has not until now formed the subject of a book-length study. This volume rectifies that absence and proves to have been well worth the wait. It is more than scholarly. It is also, in its own way, a rousing call to thinking and acting otherwise in the face of the unsettling gazes of animal others and in the shadow of their useless suffering. Reading Levinas both with and against the grain, Face to Face with Animals makes clearer than ever that injustice is irreducible to inhumanity." — David L. Clark, coeditor of Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory"This book contributes the most sustained and multifaceted engagement with Levinas on animals and animality to date. In particular, it makes an important and unique contribution to the interdisciplinary field of animal studies, in which Levinas has long been a figure of great interest in light of the promise his ethics of alterity would seem to hold for developing an ethics that encompasses nonhuman animals." — Karalyn Kendall-Morwick, Washburn University

• AcknowledgmentsEditors' Introduction: Extending the Boundaries of "The Ethical"AbbreviationsPart I. Levinas on Animals 1. The Animal Interview (English and French)Emmanuel LevinasPart II. Phenomenology 2. Levinas and the Other Animals: Phenomenological Analysis of ObligationAlphonso Lingis3. Vulnerable Lives: Levinas, Wittgenstein, and "Animals"Bob Plant4. Dog and Philosophy: Does Bobby Have What It Takes to Be Moral?Peter AttertonPart III. Responsibility toward Animals 5. Animals, Levinas, and Moral ImaginationMichael L. Morgan6. Small Justice: The Rights of the Other AnimalJonathan Crowe7. Ecce Animot: Levinas, Derrida, and the Other AnimalMatthew Calarco8. Facing Animal Research: Levinas and Technologies of EffacementSophia EfstathiouPart IV. Traditions: Greek/Hebrew/Asian 9. Homo Homini Lupus: Levinas and the Animal WithinKatharine Loevy10. What Is the Trace of the Original Face? Levinas, Buddhism, and the Mystery of AnimalityBrian Shūdō Schroeder11. "Now We're Talking Pedagogy": Levinas, Animal Ethics, and Jewish EducationTamra WrightContributorsIndex