Knowing Life

Introduction: From the Limits of Intelligibility to Perceptive Rearrangements SECTION I: LIVING CONCEPTS Praxis A: Threshold Concepts for Multispecies Communication 1. Precursor to Knowledge: Semiosis as Ground of Multispecies Morality 2. Weaving Life and Death Back Together: On Multispecies Mortality 3. Voracious Secularism: Emotional Habitus and the Desire for Knowledge in Animal Experimentation 4. Synchronicities of the Living and the Non-Living 5. Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, and African Social Epistemology SECTION II: GROWING PERCEPTIONS Praxis B: The Obligations of Our Ecological Relations: A Challenge for Land Acknowledgments 6. Decolonizing Listening: From Grammars of Lo Inaudito to Expansive Onto-Epistemic Thresholds 7. Tree of Life-Death: On the Vegetal Wisdom of Life in the Book of Zohar 8. Expansive Modes of Multispecies Knowing toward Nonviolence in the Early Jain Canon 9. Multispecies Kinship and Kindness: Knowing Life through Animist Etiquette and Ethics SECTION III: FREEING SUBJECTIVITIES Praxis C: Knowing Animals in the Anthropocene through Animal Photojournalism 10. Animals, Sex, and Gender: Understanding Animals in Animal Welfare Practice 11. Unknown Patterns of Intersubjectivity: Zhuangzi, the Seabird and the Happy Fish 12. Genre of the Animal: Beyond Racial Capitalist Consumption 13. The Forbidden Turn: Decentering Modern Subjectivity by Integrating Animal and Mystic Affects 14. Faa¸«r al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«âs Multispecies Epistemology SECTION IV: EXPERIMENTAL RESPONSES Praxis D: Making Music with Mysterious Species in Ponds 15. A Multispecies Cosmovision: Knowing Nonhumans Beyond the Cognitive Imaginary in Buddhist Thought and Practice 16. Love as a Moral Method: Developing âAttentive Platonic Loveâ toward Nonhuman Animals 17. Transspecies Selves: Rethinking Species Being and the Boundaries of the Human 18. Knowing Multiply, Unexpectedly, Imaginatively: Decolonizing Knowledge with Gloria Anzaldºa