Acknowledgments Introduction: The Human Place in the Cosmos Part I 1. Eros After Nature: Solicitation Between 'Speech' and Discourse I. Two Problems and Two Critiques II. The Solicitation-and-Response Relation 2. Animal Before Thought: Merleau-Ponty and the Maturation of Desire I. Archeology and Teleology II. The Maturation of Desire 3. Estranged Kinship: Empathy and Animal Desire in Merleau-Ponty I.

The Subsistence of Empathy II. The Sublimation of Animal Desire Part II 4. The Sensible Origins of Reflection: Levinasian Criticisms of Merleau-Ponty's Late Ontology I. An Irreducible Remainder II. The Spark of Reflection 5. The Ontological Origins of Sensibility: Phenomenological Ontology in an Aesthetic Register I. Cézanne's Inhuman Gaze II. Brute, or Anonymous Being 6.

Seeds of Ecological Selfhood: Phenomenology of the Animal in an Ethical Register I. The Paradox of Elemental Alterity II. The Transformation of Estranged Kinship Part III 7. Animauxdenial: On Nature and the Animal as (In)Difference I. Tragic, or Impossible Desire II. The Wild Animal(s) Within 8. The Barbarian Principle: Befriending the Philosopher's Shadow I. Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis II.

Disentangling Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Schelling 9. Dynamic Integration: Becoming Animal, Becoming Human I. Problematizing Indistinction II. Subordinating Greed to Love Bibliography Index.