The Animal That Therefore I Am (Hardcover)

The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derridaas ten-hour address to the 1997 CA(c)risy conference entitled aThe Autobiographical Animal, a 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 Derridaas work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinctionadating from Descartesabetween 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 athe animal.a 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 tothe question in the work of each of them.The bookas autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derridaas 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 amanas dominion over the beastsa and trace a history of how man has systematically displaced onto the animal his own failings or bAatises. The Animal That Therefore I Am is at times a militant pleaand 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 alifea to which he returned in much of his later work.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Release date:	April 2008
First published:	April 2008
Authors:	Jacques Derrida
Editors:	Marie-Louise Mallet
Translators:	David Wills
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-2790-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8232-2790-1
Barcode:	9780823227907

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