Carlo Salzani is guest research fellow at the Messerli Research Institute of Vienna, Austria.

• 1 Introduction: Limits, Possibilities, and Bats.- Part I The Limits of Imagination.- 2 The Challenge of Otherness: J.M. Coetzee vs Thomas Nagel.- 3 The Just and Loving Gaze of the Poet: Animals and Poetry.- 4 The Pitfalls of Embodiment: Imagination, Disability, Animality.- Part II The Limits of Empathy.- 5 Sympathy, Empathy, & Co.: Moral Sentimentalism and Its Discontents.- 6 Feeling One’s Way in an Intersubjective World: Phenomenology of Empathy.- 7 Listening to What the (Animal) Other is Saying: Empathy and Care.- Part III The Limits of Anthropomorphism.- 8 If a Chimp Could Talk: On the Advantages and Limits of Primatomorphism.- 9 Tentacular Logocentrism: Octopus Minds and Human Imagination.- 10 The Back of the Snake, or, Face to Face with the Other.- Epilogue: Batmom’s “World”-Traveling in Nonhuman Umwelten.

Carlo Salzani is guest research fellow at the Messerli Research Institute of Vienna, Austria.

• 1 Introduction: Limits, Possibilities, and Bats.- Part I The Limits of Imagination.- 2 The Challenge of Otherness: J.M. Coetzee vs Thomas Nagel.- 3 The Just and Loving Gaze of the Poet: Animals and Poetry.- 4 The Pitfalls of Embodiment: Imagination, Disability, Animality.- Part II The Limits of Empathy.- 5 Sympathy, Empathy, & Co.: Moral Sentimentalism and Its Discontents.- 6 Feeling One’s Way in an Intersubjective World: Phenomenology of Empathy.- 7 Listening to What the (Animal) Other is Saying: Empathy and Care.- Part III The Limits of Anthropomorphism.- 8 If a Chimp Could Talk: On the Advantages and Limits of Primatomorphism.- 9 Tentacular Logocentrism: Octopus Minds and Human Imagination.- 10 The Back of the Snake, or, Face to Face with the Other.- Epilogue: Batmom’s “World”-Traveling in Nonhuman Umwelten.

Carlo Salzani is guest research fellow at the Messerli Research Institute of Vienna, Austria.

• 1 Introduction: Limits, Possibilities, and Bats.- Part I The Limits of Imagination.- 2 The Challenge of Otherness: J.M. Coetzee vs Thomas Nagel.- 3 The Just and Loving Gaze of the Poet: Animals and Poetry.- 4 The Pitfalls of Embodiment: Imagination, Disability, Animality.- Part II The Limits of Empathy.- 5 Sympathy, Empathy, & Co.: Moral Sentimentalism and Its Discontents.- 6 Feeling One’s Way in an Intersubjective World: Phenomenology of Empathy.- 7 Listening to What the (Animal) Other is Saying: Empathy and Care.- Part III The Limits of Anthropomorphism.- 8 If a Chimp Could Talk: On the Advantages and Limits of Primatomorphism.- 9 Tentacular Logocentrism: Octopus Minds and Human Imagination.- 10 The Back of the Snake, or, Face to Face with the Other.- Epilogue: Batmom’s “World”-Traveling in Nonhuman Umwelten.