Foreword, W.J.T. Mitchell Acknowledgments Introduction Part One 1. Old Orders for New: Ecology, Animal Rights, and the Poverty of Humanism 2. In the Shadow of Wittgenstein's Lion: Language, Ethics, and the Question of the Animal Part Two 3. Subject to Sacrifice: Ideology, Psychoanalysis, and the Discourse of Species in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (with Jonathan Elmer) 4. Aficionados and Friend Killers: Rearticulating Race and Gender via Species in Hemingway 5.

Faux Posthumanism: The Discourse of Species and the Neocolonial Project in Michael Crichton's Congo Conclusion: Postmodern Ethics, the Question of the Animal, and the Imperatives of Posthumanist Theory Notes Index.