1 Introduction
1.1 An Animal Suffers for Nothing This Side of Good and Evil
1.2 Moderns Knew It: The Radical Challenge of the Suffering Animal
1.3 Life Is Weak
1.4 The Suffering Animal Faces the Extreme
1.5 Biodicies for Free Spirits
1.6 Luck of Some, Misfortune of All
1.7 Preliminary Notes
Works Cited
2 The Sensitive Cogito: Modern Materialism and Its Legacy
2.1 A Shaky Canon
2.2 The Animal-Machine, or Rather Descartes’ Dangerous Idea
2.3 The Rise of the Suffering Animal
2.4 The “Innovative Restoration” of the Rational Animal
Works Cited
3 Life Is Overrated: On Darwin’s Ultimate Materialism
3.1 The Evolution of the Suffering Animal
3.2 The Coral of Life and the Chance of Equality
3.3 The Revolt of Sentient Beings and the Chance of Civilization
3.4 There Is Life, Therefore God Cannot Exist
3.5 The Suffering Animal Versus the Powerful Animal
Works Cited
4 Humanity as a Matter of Civilization: The Primo Levi Case
4.1 Thinking Dehumanization by Experience
4.2 The Inegalitarian God and Meaningless Suffering
4.3 The Salvation of Civilization
4.4 “We Weren’t a Pleasant Sight”
4.5 The Salvation of Science
Works Cited
5 The Rise of the Powerful Animal: On Deleuze’s Materialism of Power
5.1 The Eclipse of the Suffering Animal
5.2 Releasing Life: Hume and Bergson
5.3 Releasing the Living: Spinoza and Nietzsche
5.4 Becoming the Powerful Animal that We Are
5.5 The Powerful Animal Reveals Their True Face
Works Cited
6 Conclusion: The Powerful Animal Encounters the Suffering Animal
Works Cited.