Derrida, Animal Otherness, Objects, and Narcissism

Alžbeta Kuchtová

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Chapter 4 Derrida, Animal Otherness, Objects, and Narcissism

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Pages:: 174–237

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004701465_006

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The fourth chapter focuses on Derrida’s analysis of animality and thingness as they are related to questions of brotherhood, fraternity, and nationalism. The distinction between the living and the more-than-living is one of the key distinctions of this chapter. It shows that Derrida does not actually overcome the distinction between the organic and the inorganic; indeed, he conceives of otherness in terms of the death proper to organic beings. Derrida’s thinking is defined in this chapter as narcissistic auto-bio-morphism. However, his analysis can serve as a starting point for reflection on the otherness of more-than-living or inorganic objects, focusing in particular on objects that are not strictly a part of nature (such as the products of mass production).

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The Ungraspable as a Philosophical Problem

The Stubborn Persistence of Humanism in Contemporary Phenomenology

Series: New Research in the History of Western Philosophy, Volume: 5

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