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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460025803321

Autore

Benjamin Andrew E.

Titolo

Of Jews and animals / / Andrew Benjamin [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-7486-5373-2

1-282-74979-X

9786612749797

0-7486-4231-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

The frontiers of theory

Disciplina

704.94201

Soggetti

Human figure in art

Painting - Philosophy

Jews in art

Animals in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Living and being : Descartes' "animal spirits" and Heidegger's dog -- The insistent dog : Blanchot and the community without animals -- Indefinite play and "the name of man" : anthropocentrism's deconstruction -- What if the other were an animal : Hegel on Jews, animals and disease -- Agamben on "Jews" and "animals" -- Force, justice and the Jew : Pascal's PenseĢes 102 and 103 -- Facing Jews -- Animals, Jews.

Sommario/riassunto

In developing his own conception of the 'figure'  Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy  the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals.