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The Animal That Therefore I Am (Paperback)
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The Animal That Therefore I Am (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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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.
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