This is a book about the difference between being a butcher and being a murderer, if there is a difference
This is a book about the fungibility of identity
This is a book about the persistence of identity
This is a book about the relationship between identity and body
This is a book about the unforeseen consequences of technology
This is a book about some of the ways in which slick talk about the “posthuman” is vacuous
This is a book about the uses and abuses of the concept of species
This is a book about the Smiths’ song “Meat is Murder”
This is a book about all the stories that have talking animals
This is a book about Wittgenstein’s claim that “If a lion could talk, we would not understand him”
This is a book about what happens to carnivores when they become reflective about being carnivores
This is a book about Oedipus and the riddle of the Sphinx
This is a book about what Animal Farm would be like if it weren’t a parable
This is a book about what we think is below us and what we think might be above us in the Great Chain of Being
This is a book about what the Turing test can’t do
This is a book about the problem of other minds