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The Animal That Therefore I Am
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

 

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The Animal That Therefore I Am
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

by Jacques Derrida (Author)
Marie-Louise Mallet (Editor)
David Wills (Translator)

 

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ISBN: 9780823227914

 

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Presents a translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cerisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. This book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session.


In a classic deconstructive reversal, Derrida asks what this animal sees and thinks when it sees this naked man. Yet the experiences of nakedness and shame also lead all the way back into the mythologies of "man's dominion over the beasts" and trace a history of how man has systematically displaced onto the animal his own failings or betises."The Animal That Therefore I Am" is at times a militant plea and indictment regarding, especially, the modern industrialized treatment of animals. However, Derrida cannot subscribe to a simplistic version of animal rights that fails to follow through, in all its implications, the questions and definitions of "life" to which he returned in much of his later work.


 

ISBN 82322791
ISBN13 9780823227914
Publisher Fordham University Press
Format Paperback
Publication date 15/07/2008
Pages 192
Weight (grammes) 368
Published in United States
Height (mm) 226
Width (mm) 154