Derrida wrote extensively on "the question of the animal." In
particular, he challenged Heidegger's, Husserl's, and other
philosophers' work on the subject, questioning their
phenomenological criteria for distinguishing humans from animals.
Examining a range of Derrida's writings, including his most recent
"L'animal que donc je suis," as well as "Aporias," "Of Spirit,"
"Rams," and "Rogues," Leonard Lawlor reconstructs a portrait of
Derrida's views on animality and their intimate connection to his
thinking on ethics, names and singularity, sovereignty, and the
notion of a common world.
Derrida believed that humans and animals cannot be substantially
separated, yet neither do they form a continuous species. Instead,
in his "staggered analogy," Derrida asserts that all living beings
are weak and therefore capable of suffering. This controversial
claim both refuted the notion that humans and animals possess
autonomy and contradicted the assumption that they possess the
trait of machinery. However, it does offer the foundation for an
argument-which Lawlor brilliantly and passionately defines in his
book-in which humans are able to will this weakness into a kind of
unconditional hospitality. Humans are not strong enough to keep
themselves separate from animals. In other words, we are too weak
to keep animals from entering into our sphere. Lawlor's argument is
a bold approach to remedying "the problem of the worst," or the
complete extermination of life, which is fast becoming a
reality.
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