Contents -- Foreword by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer -- Introduction -- Part 1. Animal Histories -- Building an Animal History - Éric Baratay -- A Tale of Three Chameleons: The Animal between Science and Literature in the Age of Louis XIV - Peter Sahlins -- The Colonial Zoo - Walter Putnam -- Part 2. Animal Philosophies and Representations -- The Unexpected Resemblance between Dualism and Continuism, or How to Break a Philosophical Stalemate - Florence Burgat -- Like the Fingers of the Hand: Thinking the Human in the Texture of Animality - Dominique Lestel -- Animality and Contemporary French Literary Studies: Overview and Perspectives - Anne Simon -- Part 3. Animal Intimacies -- Why "I Had Not Read Derrida": Often Too Close, Always Too Far Away - Vinciane Despret -- Chercher la chatte: Derrida's Queer Feminine Animality - Carla Freccero -- Paternalism or Legal Protection of Animals? Bestiality and the French Judicial System - Marcela Iacub -- Part 4. Animals and Environment -- On Being Living Beings: Renewing Perceptions of Our World, Our Society, and Ourselves - Isabelle Delannoy -- The Greenway: A Study of Shared Animal/Human Mobility - Nathalie Blanc -- Wild, Domestic, or Technical: What Status for Animals? - Marie-Hélène Parizeau -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.