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