(Books to purchase are in BOLD. All other texts will be provided to you electronically. Please bring your laptop or print these texts so that you’ll have them readily available in class.)

Agamben, Giorgio. The Open: Man and Animal. Stanford. 2003.

Aristotle. The Politics (Book I, Part II). Any version.

Atterton, Peter. “Ethical Cynicism.” In Atterton and Calarco’s Animal Philosophy.

Atterton, Peter and Matthew Calarco, eds. Animal Philosophy: Ethics and Identity. (Selections) Continuum. 2008.

Buchanan, Brett. Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleu-Ponty, and Deleuze (selections). SUNY 2008.

Butler, Judith. Giving an Account of Oneself. Fordham. 2005. 

Calarco, Matthew. Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida (selections). Columbia. 2008.

—. “Heidegger’s Zoontology.” In Atterton and Calarco’s Animal Philosophy.

Chomsky, Noam. Excerpt from Language and Responsibility. Pantheon, 1977.

Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man (“Language” section, 134-144). Plume. 2007 edition.

Davis, Diane. “P.S. On Humanism.” In Inessential Solidarity. Pittsburgh. 2010.

Davis, Diane. “Creaturely Rhetorics.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 44.1 (2011): 88-94.

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. “Becoming-Animal.” In Atterton and Calarco’s Animal Philosophy.

Derrida, Jacques. The Animal That Therefore I am. Fordham. 2008.

Descartes, Rene. Discourse on the Metod. Section 5 only. Any translation. Original pub date: 1637.

—. Meditations on First Philosophy. Meditation II only. Any translation. Original pub date: 1641.

Doxtader, Erik. “Forum: Addressing Animals.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 44.1 (2011): 79-80.

Foucault, Michel. “Animality and Insanity.” In Atterton and Calarco’s Animal Philosophy.

Frank, Luanne T. “Heidegger, Captain Paul Watson, and the ‘Look’ of Leviathan.” JAC 30.3-4 (2010): 583-617.

Harrison, Peter. “Descartes on Animals.”  The Philosophical Quarterly, 42.167 (Apr., 1992): 219-227.

Hawhee, Debra. “Toward a Bestial Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 44.1 (2011): 81-87.

Heidegger, Martin. “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth.” In Pathmarks. Ed. William McNeill. Cambridge. 1998.

—. “Letter on Humanism.” In Pathmarks. 1998.

—. “The Animal is Poor in World.” In Atterton and Calarco’s Animal Philosophy.

Kennedy, George A. “A Hoot in the Dark: The Evolution of a General Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 25.1 (1992): 1-21.

Levinas, Emmanuel. “The Name of a Dog; Or Natural Rights.” Difficult Freedom. Trans. Sean Hand. Johns Hopkins. 1990.

—. “The Paradox of Morality.” An interview with Emmanuel Levinas. In The Provocation of Levinas : Rethinking the Other. Ed. Robert Bernasconi and David Wood. Routledge. 1988.

Lingis, Alphonso. “Nietzsche and the Animals.” In Atterton and Calarco’s Animal Philosophy.

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Inhuman: Reflections on Time. Trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby. Polity Press. 1991. (Selections)

Muckelbauer, John. “Domesticating Animal Theory.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 44.1 (2011): 95-100.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. “O My Animals.” In Atterton and Calarco’s Animal Philosophy.

Palmer, Clare. “Madness and Animality in Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilization.” In Atterton and Calarco’s Animal Philosophy.

von Uexküll, Jakob. “A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men.” Semiotica 89.4 (1992): 319-391.

Urpeth, James. “Animal Becomings.” In Atterton and Calarco’s Animal Philosophy.

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