Demenageries [electronic resource] : thinking (of) animals after Derrida / edited by Anne Emmanuelle Berger and Marta Segarra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berger, Anne Emmanuelle.

Segarra, Marta.

Series:

Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 35.

Critical studies ; v. 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals.

Derrida, Jacques--Criticism and interpretation.

Derrida, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Demenageries

Thoughtprints / Anne E. Berger and Marta Segarra

Animal Writes: Derrida’s Que Donc and Other Tails / Marie-Dominique Garnier

On a Serpentine Note / Ginette Michaud

Ver(s): Toward a Spirituality of One’s Own / Claudia Simma

When Sophie Loved Animals / Anne E. Berger

Deconstruction and Petting: Untamed Animots in Derrida and Kafka / Joseph Lavery

Say the Ram Survived: Altering the Binding of Isaac in Jacques Derrida’s “Rams” and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace / Adeline Rother

Crowds and Powerlessness: Reading //kabbo and Canetti with Derrida in (South) Africa / Rosalind C. Morris

“Tout Autre est Tout Autre” / James Siegel

Meditations for the Birds / David Wills

CONTRIBUTORS / Editors Demenageries.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0049-1

OCLC:

741492995

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401200493 DOI