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Demenageries
Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida
Series: - Critical Studies, Volume: 35
- Critical Studies, Volume: 35
Demenageries, Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida is a collection of essays on animality following Jacques Derridaâs work. The Western philosophical tradition separated animals from men by excluding the former from everything that was considered âproper to manâ: laughing, suffering, mourning, and above all, thinking. The âanimalâ 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 âla pensée de lâanimalâ (which means both thinking concerning the animal and âanimal thinkingâ) 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, âanimalityâ has become an almost fashionable topic. However, Demenageries is the first collection to take Derridaâs 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.
Anne E. Berger and Marta Segarra: Thoughtprints
Marie-Dominique Garnier: Animal Writes: Derridaâs Que Donc and Other Tails
Ginette Michaud: On a Serpentine Note
Claudia Simma: Ver(s): Toward a Spirituality of Oneâs Own
Anne E. Berger: When Sophie Loved Animals
Joseph Lavery: Deconstruction and Petting: Untamed Animots in Derrida and Kafka
Adeline Rother: Say the Ram Survived: Altering the Binding of Isaac in Jacques Derridaâs âRamsâ and J.M. Coetzeeâs Disgrace
Rosalind C. Morris: Crowds and Powerlessness: Reading //kabbo and Canetti with Derrida in (South) Africa
James Siegel: âTout Autre est Tout Autreâ
David Wills: Meditations for the Birds
Contributors
Marie-Dominique Garnier: Animal Writes: Derridaâs Que Donc and Other Tails
Ginette Michaud: On a Serpentine Note
Claudia Simma: Ver(s): Toward a Spirituality of Oneâs Own
Anne E. Berger: When Sophie Loved Animals
Joseph Lavery: Deconstruction and Petting: Untamed Animots in Derrida and Kafka
Adeline Rother: Say the Ram Survived: Altering the Binding of Isaac in Jacques Derridaâs âRamsâ and J.M. Coetzeeâs Disgrace
Rosalind C. Morris: Crowds and Powerlessness: Reading //kabbo and Canetti with Derrida in (South) Africa
James Siegel: âTout Autre est Tout Autreâ
David Wills: Meditations for the Birds
Contributors