Beyond Nature

Introduction
 1  The Soul of Animals under Socialism
 2  Did You Say ‘Dialectics’?
 3  Singer & Sons
 4  Against Animal Liberation Ideology
 5  Critical Failures
 6  Hegelian Animal Spirits
 7  The Structure of the Book

Part 1 Critique of Animal Liberation Ideology

1 What Is Antispeciesism?
 1  Three Different Definitions
 2  A Sociological Fallacy
 3  Metaphysical and Historical Antispeciesism
 4  Animal Liberation and Human Liberation?

2 On the Genesis of Speciesism
 1  The Ambiguity of Speciesism
 2  The Origin of Speciesism
 3  How?
 4  Speciesism and Human Liberation

3 Animal Right Activism and Its Discontents
 1  Two Forms of Praxis: Conflict and Inclusion
 2  Conflict
 3  Inclusion
 4  The ‘Bottom-Up’ Change Is a Disguised Hierarchical Change
 5  Veganism Is Not a Mode of Production

Part 2 Marxism and Animal Liberation

4 Marxism and Animal Rights
 1  One Struggle?
 2  Animal Rights vs. Marx
 3  The Role of Animals in Marxism
 4  The Real Problem: Animal Alienation

5 Marxism and the Repression of Nature
 1  Animal and Capital
 2  History and Natural History in Marx and Engels
 3  From Primitive Communism to the Early States
 4  Conclusion

6 The Dialectical Animal
 1  Animality and Anthropopoiesis
 2  From the Institute for Social Research to the ‘Frankfurt School’
 3  From Nature to Animals
 4  The Structure of Domination
 5  The Specific Role of Animals in the General Scheme of Domination
 6  The Dialectical Animal
 7  Materialistic Solidarity
 8  A New ‘Dialectics of Nature’
 9  The Reconciliation of Nature

Part 3 Conclusion: Beyond Nature

7 Towards a Post-Neolithic Society
 1  Materialism and Technē
 2  Universal History as a Catastrophe
 3  The Universal Human Being and the Enlarged Animal Society
 4  Rien faire comme une bête

8 The Aporetic Nature of the Theory/Praxis Opposition

Epilogue: Antispeciesism and Anticapitalism

References
Index