Louisa Mackenzie is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.Stephanie Posthumus is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University in Montreal.

“Thinking about animals, these essays show, does more than sensitize us to extended ethical obligations. It opens us to existential questions about suffering, identity, and awareness of alterity. This collection should inspire a cross-cultural dialogue in which humanists, French or otherwise, are challenged to abandon conceptions of humanity that ignore the manifold experiences of life in this world. “—Kerry H. Whiteside, Franklin and Marshall College

• Contents Foreword by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer Introduction Part 1. Animal Histories Building an Animal History - Éric Baratay A Tale of Three Chameleons: The Animal between Science and Literature in the Age of Louis XIV - Peter Sahlins The Colonial Zoo - Walter Putnam Part 2. Animal Philosophies and Representations The Unexpected Resemblance between Dualism and Continuism, or How to Break a Philosophical Stalemate - Florence Burgat Like the Fingers of the Hand: Thinking the Human in the Texture of Animality - Dominique Lestel Animality and Contemporary French Literary Studies: Overview and Perspectives - Anne Simon Part 3. Animal Intimacies Why “I Had Not Read Derrida”: Often Too Close, Always Too Far Away - Vinciane Despret Chercher la chatte: Derrida’s Queer Feminine Animality - Carla Freccero Paternalism or Legal Protection of Animals? Bestiality and the French Judicial System - Marcela Iacub Part 4. Animals and Environment On Being Living Beings: Renewing Perceptions of Our World, Our Society, and Ourselves - Isabelle Delannoy The Greenway: A Study of Shared Animal/Human Mobility - Nathalie Blanc Wild, Domestic, or Technical: What Status for Animals? - Marie-Hélène Parizeau Bibliography Contributors Index

Louisa Mackenzie is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.Stephanie Posthumus is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University in Montreal.

“Thinking about animals, these essays show, does more than sensitize us to extended ethical obligations. It opens us to existential questions about suffering, identity, and awareness of alterity. This collection should inspire a cross-cultural dialogue in which humanists, French or otherwise, are challenged to abandon conceptions of humanity that ignore the manifold experiences of life in this world. “—Kerry H. Whiteside, Franklin and Marshall College

• Contents Foreword by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer Introduction Part 1. Animal Histories Building an Animal History - Éric Baratay A Tale of Three Chameleons: The Animal between Science and Literature in the Age of Louis XIV - Peter Sahlins The Colonial Zoo - Walter Putnam Part 2. Animal Philosophies and Representations The Unexpected Resemblance between Dualism and Continuism, or How to Break a Philosophical Stalemate - Florence Burgat Like the Fingers of the Hand: Thinking the Human in the Texture of Animality - Dominique Lestel Animality and Contemporary French Literary Studies: Overview and Perspectives - Anne Simon Part 3. Animal Intimacies Why “I Had Not Read Derrida”: Often Too Close, Always Too Far Away - Vinciane Despret Chercher la chatte: Derrida’s Queer Feminine Animality - Carla Freccero Paternalism or Legal Protection of Animals? Bestiality and the French Judicial System - Marcela Iacub Part 4. Animals and Environment On Being Living Beings: Renewing Perceptions of Our World, Our Society, and Ourselves - Isabelle Delannoy The Greenway: A Study of Shared Animal/Human Mobility - Nathalie Blanc Wild, Domestic, or Technical: What Status for Animals? - Marie-Hélène Parizeau Bibliography Contributors Index

Louisa Mackenzie is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.Stephanie Posthumus is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University in Montreal.

“Thinking about animals, these essays show, does more than sensitize us to extended ethical obligations. It opens us to existential questions about suffering, identity, and awareness of alterity. This collection should inspire a cross-cultural dialogue in which humanists, French or otherwise, are challenged to abandon conceptions of humanity that ignore the manifold experiences of life in this world. “—Kerry H. Whiteside, Franklin and Marshall College

• Contents Foreword by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer Introduction Part 1. Animal Histories Building an Animal History - Éric Baratay A Tale of Three Chameleons: The Animal between Science and Literature in the Age of Louis XIV - Peter Sahlins The Colonial Zoo - Walter Putnam Part 2. Animal Philosophies and Representations The Unexpected Resemblance between Dualism and Continuism, or How to Break a Philosophical Stalemate - Florence Burgat Like the Fingers of the Hand: Thinking the Human in the Texture of Animality - Dominique Lestel Animality and Contemporary French Literary Studies: Overview and Perspectives - Anne Simon Part 3. Animal Intimacies Why “I Had Not Read Derrida”: Often Too Close, Always Too Far Away - Vinciane Despret Chercher la chatte: Derrida’s Queer Feminine Animality - Carla Freccero Paternalism or Legal Protection of Animals? Bestiality and the French Judicial System - Marcela Iacub Part 4. Animals and Environment On Being Living Beings: Renewing Perceptions of Our World, Our Society, and Ourselves - Isabelle Delannoy The Greenway: A Study of Shared Animal/Human Mobility - Nathalie Blanc Wild, Domestic, or Technical: What Status for Animals? - Marie-Hélène Parizeau Bibliography Contributors Index