LEADER 04042oam 22006254a 450 001 9910480248003321 005 20210209160215.0 010 $a0-8232-4687-6 010 $a0-8232-2791-X 010 $a0-8232-2792-8 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008065 035 $a(OCoLC)629146723 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10365066 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000081481 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11110500 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000081481 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10112837 035 $a(PQKB)10936888 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239448 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14904 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476650 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476650 035 $a(OCoLC)727645685 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008065 100 $a20080221d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Animal That Therefore I Am$fJacques Derrida ; edited by Marie-Louise Mallet ; translated by David Wills 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2008. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2012 210 4$dİ2008. 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 225 1 $aPerspectives in Continental Philosophy 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-2790-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aThe animal that therefore I am (more to follow) -- But as for me, who am I (following)? -- And say the animal responded -- I don't know why we are doing this. 330 $aThe Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida?s ten-hour address to the 1997 Ce?risy 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 tothe 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 be?tises. 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 330 8 $afails to follow through, in all its implications, the questions and definitions of ?life? to which he returned in much of his later work. 410 0$aPerspectives in Continental Philosophy 606 $aAnimals (Philosophy) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAnimals (Philosophy) 676 $a194 700 $aDerrida$b Jacques$0139765 701 $aMallet$b Marie-Louise$0326290 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480248003321 996 $aThe Animal That Therefore I Am$92464355 997 $aUNINA