Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human

ISBN-13: 9780748680979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 416 str.

Judith Still

Opis

What is man? Judith Still examines Derrida's contribution to this long-standing philosophical and political debate, which has typically evoked a significant division between human beings and other animals. Derrida pays close attention to how animals are used to explore humanity in a range of writings, including fables and fiction. This leads to ethical questions about how humans treat animals: sacrificing animals (say, in factory farms) while extending love to pets. And it leads to political questions about how we dehumanise 'outsiders', from historical matters such as colonialism and slavery to contemporary issues such as State Terror in response to 'rogue states'.

Spis treści

Chapter One ‘Introduction’, 1. The Frontier or Abyss – and Animals as Good to Think, 2. The Derrida Texts in Question and the Problem of Defining Terms, 3. Socio-political Contexts, 4. The Philosophical Tradition: Aristotle to Levinas, 5. The Modern Critical and Literary Context, 6. Savages, Slaves and Women; Chapter Two ‘Man is a Wolf to Man’, 1. Introduction: The Beast and the Sovereign and Lycological Intertexts, 2. La Fontaine and the Fable of Might and Right, 3. Rousseau and Hobbes: Wolves in the State of Nature, 4. Wolves in the Encyclopédie, 5. From Hunger to Taste, and the Eating of Flesh, 6. Concluding Comments; Chapter Three ‘The Love of the Wolf’ , 1. A Certain Tradition, 2. Renée Vivien and ‘The Lady with the She-Wolf’, 3. Cixous and Other Loving, 4. Little Red Riding Hood; Chapter Four ‘The Savage’, 1. Background: the Ethnographic and Philosophic Encounter with the New World from La Fontaine Onwards, 2. What is the Difference between ‘Man’ and ‘Animal’ (Savage)?, 3. Solitude, Social Characteristics and the Human Community: the Community of Cannibals?, 4. Derrida and ‘Eating Well’; Chapter Five ‘The Slave’, 1. Sovereignty: Masters Defining Slaves, 2. The Animal-thing, 3. The Pretend Family of Slavery, 4. The Community and Terror: Letters from an American Farmer; Chapter Six ‘Women and Other Animals: Working Metamorphoses’, 1. Fables: Duffy’s ‘Mrs Aesop’, 2. Work and Technology: Women as Animals, 3. Metamorphoses , 4. Porcine Metamorphosis: From Ulysses’s Companions to Darrieussecq, 5. Love and Money in Marie Ndiaye’s Ladivine, 6. Conclusion around Eating and Writing; Chapter Seven ‘Wanting Conclusion’, 1. Blindness, Textual and Historical, 2. Self-positing Man and Enlightenment, 3. The State and Terror, 4. Returning to Animals, 5. Women and Emotion, 6. Stupid Conclusions and Gesturing to the Future.