Animal Question In Deconstruction

Author : Lynn Turner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780748683147

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Animal Question in Deconstruction by Lynn Turner Pdf

Explores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the 'animal question'How does deconstruction understand relations between humans and other animals? This collection of essays reveals that across Jacques Derrida's work as a whole, as well as that of Helene Cixous and Nicholas Royle, deconstruction has always addressed questions about animality. In this collection, for example, Cixous asks after human intervention between the death of a wild bird and the predation of a domestic cat. Kelly Oliver pursues Derrida's analysis of what or whose gaze is at stake when a King oversees the autopsy of an elephant. Royle examines in what sense the vulnerable impressions made by the tunnelling of a mole might be thought of as the traces of a text. Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of ourselves. Across this collection authors bring to attention the politics and the ethics of a less anthropocentric world. Even when this world is grasped

Author : Lynn Turner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748683154

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Animal Question in Deconstruction by Lynn Turner Pdf

This collection of essays reveals that across Jacques Derrida's work as a whole, as well as that of Helene Cixous and Nicholas Royle, deconstruction has always addressed questions about animality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401200493

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Demenageries by Anonim Pdf

Demenageries, Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida is a collection of essays on animality following Jacques Derrida’s work. The Western philosophical tradition separated animals from men by excluding the former from everything that was considered “proper to man”: laughing, suffering, mourning, and above all, thinking. The “animal” has traditionally been considered the absolute Other of humans. This radical otherness has served as the rationale for the domination, exploitation and slaughter of animals. What Derrida called “la pensée de l’animal” (which means both thinking concerning the animal and “animal thinking”) may help us understand differently such apparently human features as language, thought and writing. It may also help us think anew about such highly philosophical concerns as differences, otherness, the end(s) of history and the world at large. Thanks to the ethical and epistemological crisis of Western humanism, “animality” has become an almost fashionable topic. However, Demenageries is the first collection to take Derrida’s thinking on animal thinking as a starting point, a way of reflecting not only on animals but starting from them, in order to address a variety of issues from a vast range of theoretical perspectives: philosophy, literature, cultural theory, anthropology, ethics, politics, religion, feminism, postcolonialism and, of course, posthumanism.

Author : Robert Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Animals (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1399509705

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The Animal-to-come by Robert Briggs Pdf

Robert Briggs lays out an original interpretation of Jacques Derrida's work which takes the question of the animal beyond the critique of political and philosophical anthropocentrism. Eschewing approaches grounded in animal vulnerability, Briggs reviews theories of power, politics and culture in terms of their capacity to enable novel images of zoopolitics. Along the way he engages with recently translated work in the emerging field of philosophical ethology, including Vinciane Despret's 'What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?' (2016) and Dominique Lestel's empirical and constructivist phenomenology of human-animal relations.

Author : Aaron S. Gross
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231538374

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The Question of the Animal and Religion by Aaron S. Gross Pdf

Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a powerful case for elevating the category of the animal in the study of religion. Major theorists have almost without exception approached religion as a phenomenon that radically marks humans off from other animals, but Gross rejects this paradigm, instead matching religion more closely with the life sciences to better theorize human nature. Gross begins with a detailed account of the scandals at Agriprocessors and their significance for the American and international Jewish community. He argues that without a proper theorization of "animals and religion," we cannot fully understand religiously and ethically motivated diets and how and why the events at Agriprocessors took place. Subsequent chapters recognize the significance of animals to the study of religion in the work of Ernst Cassirer, Emile Durkheim, Mircea Eliade, Jonathan Z. Smith, and Jacques Derrida and the value of indigenous peoples' understanding of animals to the study of religion in our daily lives. Gross concludes by extending the Agribusiness scandal to the activities at slaughterhouses of all kinds, calling attention to the religiosity informing the regulation of "secular" slaughterhouses and its implications for our relationship with and self-imagination through animals.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780823227907

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The Animal that Therefore I Am by Jacques Derrida Pdf

The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session. The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction--dating from Descartes--between man as thinking animal and every other living species. That starts with the very fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the millions of other species that are reduced to a single "the animal." Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it, surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses to the question in the work of each of them. The book's autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derrida's experience when his cat follows him into the bathroom in the morning. 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 bêtises. 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.

Author : Andrew Benjamin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780748653737

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Of Jews and Animals by Andrew Benjamin Pdf

In developing his own conception of the 'figure', Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals. Newly available in p

Author : Matthew Calarco
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231140225

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Zoographies by Matthew Calarco Pdf

Zoographies challenges the anthropocentrism of the Continental philosophical tradition and advances the position that, while some distinctions are valid, humans and animals are best viewed as part of an ontological whole. Matthew Calarco draws on ethological and evolutionary evidence and the work of Heidegger, who called for a radicalized responsibility toward all forms of life. He also turns to Levinas, who raised questions about the nature and scope of ethics; Agamben, who held the "anthropological machine" responsible for the horrors of the twentieth century; and Derrida, who initiated a nonanthropocentric ethics. Calarco concludes with a call for the abolition of classical versions of the human-animal distinction and asks that we devise new ways of thinking about and living with animals.

Author : Anna West
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781107179172

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Thomas Hardy and Animals by Anna West Pdf

Thomas Hardy and Animals looks at creatures in Hardy's novels, examining human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities.

Author : Robert Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474493955

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The Animal-To-Come by Robert Briggs Pdf

Author : Sands Danielle Sands
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474439060

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Animal Writing by Sands Danielle Sands Pdf

Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects - beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy. Along the way she encounters fiction writers Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois.

Author : Derek Ryan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748682218

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Animal Theory by Derek Ryan Pdf

From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, over the course of an introduction and four thematically organised chapters Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse.

Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426107

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After Derrida by Jean-Michel Rabaté Pdf

This collection of essays introduces the ideas of philosopher Jacques Derrida who exerts a huge influence on literary criticism.

Author : Lynn Turner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474418423

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Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies by Lynn Turner Pdf

This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies.

Author : Leonard Lawlor
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231143127

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This is Not Sufficient by Leonard Lawlor Pdf

Derrida wrote extensively on "the question of the animal." In particular, he challenged Heidegger's, Husserl's, and other philosophers' work on the subject, questioning their phenomenological criteria for distinguishing humans from animals. Examining a range of Derrida's writings, including his most recent L'animal que donc je suis, as well as Aporias, Of Spirit, Rams, and Rogues, Leonard Lawlor reconstructs a portrait of Derrida's views on animality and their intimate connection to his thinking on ethics, names and singularity, sovereignty, and the notion of a common world. Derrida believed that humans and animals cannot be substantially separated, yet neither do they form a continuous species. Instead, in his "staggered analogy," Derrida asserts that all living beings are weak and therefore capable of suffering. This controversial claim both refuted the notion that humans and animals possess autonomy and contradicted the assumption that they possess the trait of machinery. However, it does offer the foundation for an argument-which Lawlor brilliantly and passionately defines in his book-in which humans are able to will this weakness into a kind of unconditional hospitality. Humans are not strong enough to keep themselves separate from animals. In other words, we are too weak to keep animals from entering into our sphere. Lawlor's argument is a bold approach to remedying "the problem of the worst," or the complete extermination of life, which is fast becoming a reality.