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The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida)
Jacques Derrida
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Paperback. Translator(s): Bennington, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 462.
Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002 2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses on two markedly different texts: Heidegger's 1929 1930 course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. As he moves back and forth between the two works, Derrida pursuesthe relations between solitude, insularity, world, violence, boredom and death as they supposedly affect humans and animals in different ways. Hitherto unnoticed ... Read more
Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002 2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses on two markedly different texts: Heidegger's 1929 1930 course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. As he moves back and forth between the two works, Derrida pursuesthe relations between solitude, insularity, world, violence, boredom and death as they supposedly affect humans and animals in different ways. Hitherto unnoticed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226478531
SKU
V9780226478531
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About Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (1930 2004) was director of studies at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books published by the University of Chicago Press. Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University and the author of ... Read more
Reviews for The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida)
-The second volume of The Beast and the Sovereign, a meticulously edited transcript of the seminar's second year (2002-03), shows us a different though complementary and perhaps more essential Derrida, a forensically close reader. . . . What Derrida seeks to highlight in both Defoe's and Heidegger's texts is the precariousness and fragility of the purportedly stable borders demarcating the ... Read more