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A central thinker on the question of the animal in continental thought, lisabeth de Fontenay moves in this volume from Jacques Derrida's uneasily intimate writing on animals to a passionate frontal engagement with politicaland ethical theory as it has been applied to animals-along with a stinging critique of the works of Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri as well as other ""utilitarian"" philosophers of animalhuman relations.

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Without Offending Humans is an excellent, timely, well-argued book. Elisabeth de Fontenay is an original thinker, urging us to consider a rethought version of historical materialism and a utopic animalism. Leonard Lawler, author of Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy

"""Without Offending Humans is an excellent, timely, well-argued book. Élisabeth de Fontenay is an original thinker, urging us to consider a rethought version of historical materialism and a utopic animalism."" —Leonard Lawler, author of Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy"

Without Offending Humans is an excellent, timely, well-argued book. Elisabeth de Fontenay is an original thinker, urging us to consider a rethought version of historical materialism and a utopic animalism. -Leonard Lawler, author of Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy

Without Offending Humans is an excellent, timely, well-argued book. Elisabeth de Fontenay is an original thinker, urging us to consider a rethought version of historical materialism and a utopic animalism. --Leonard Lawler, author of Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy Without Offending Humans is an excellent, timely, well-argued book. Elisabeth de Fontenay is an original thinker, urging us to consider a rethought version of historical materialism and a utopic animalism. Leonard Lawler, author of Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy

Without Offending Humans is an excellent, timely, well-argued book. elisabeth de Fontenay is an original thinker, urging us to consider a rethought version of historical materialism and a utopic animalism. --Leonard Lawler, author of Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy <br>

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Born in 1934, lisabeth de Fontenay was closely associated with the late Jacques Derrida and is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Sorbonne. She is the author of Le silence des betes: La philosophie l'epreuve de l'animalite and Diderot: Reason and Resonance. Will Bishop received his doctorate in French literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Paris, where he teaches and translates.

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