Rhetoric and the Animal Resources

Bekoff, Marc. The Emotional Lives of Animals. New World Library, 2007.

Bekoff, Marc and Jessica Pierce. Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals. U of Chicago P, 2009.

Derrida, Jacques. “‘Eating Well,’ or the Calculation of the Subject: An Interview with Jacques Derrida.” In Cadava, Connor, and Nancy, ed. Who Comes After the Subject. Routledge, 1991. (Below is a PDF of the Topoi version, 1988)

–. Of Grammatology. Trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Johns Hopkins U, 1974.

–. The Beast and the Sovereign. U of Chicago P, 2009.

–. “Geschlechte II: Heidegger’s Hand’,  trans.John  P.  Leavey  Jr.,  in  John  Sallis  (ed.),Deconstruction and Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987: 161-196.

–. Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question. Trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby. U of Chicago P, 1989.

–. The Gift of Death. Trans. David Wills. U of Chicago P, 1995.

Derrida, Jacques and Elisabeth Roudinesco. For What Tomorrow? A Dialogue. Trans Jeff Fort. Stanford UP, 2004.

de Waal, Frans. Primates and Philosophers. Princeton. 2009.

Gill, Victoria. “Monkeys Can Feel Self-Doubt Just Like People.” Global Animal.

Ham, Jennifer and Matthew Senior, eds. Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History. Routledge, 1997.

Haraway, Donna. When Species Meet. Minnesota: U of Minnesota P, 2008.

Hearne, Vickie. “How to say Fetch.” Adam’s Task: Calling Animals by Name. Skyhorse. 2007.

Hess, Elizabeth. Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human. Bantam, 2009.

Nussbaum, Martha. Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions.

Oliver, Kelly. Animal Lessons: How they Teach Us to be Human. Columbia UP, 2009.

Nova. Dogs Decoded: Understanding the Human-Dog Relationship. PBS, 2010.

Nova. The Human Spark: What Makes Us Unique? PBS. 2010.

Pollick, Amy S. and Frans B. M. de Waal. “Ape Gestures and Language Evolution.” PNAS May 8, 2007 vol. 104 no. 19, 8184–8189. (below)

Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue and Roger Lewin. Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994.

Woods, Vanessa. Bonobo Handshake. Gotham Books, 2010.

Wolfe, Cary. Animal Rites: America Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory. Chicago. 2003.

—, Ed. Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal. U of Minnesota P, 2003.

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