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This is Not Sufficient
Leonard Lawlor
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Description for This is Not Sufficient
Derrida wrote extensively on "the question of the animal." Examining a range of Derrida's writings, this title 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. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231143127
SKU
V9780231143127
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About Leonard Lawlor
Leonard Lawlor is Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is the author of five books: The Implications of Immanence: Towards a New Concept of Life; Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology; Thinking Through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question; The Challenge of Bergsonism: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics; and Imagination and Chance: The Difference ... Read more
Reviews for This is Not Sufficient
This book is a crucial opening to the discussion of animality from within a deconstructionist perspective... Recommended. CHOICE A succinct and remarkable book on the late Jacques Derrida's unfinished writing about the relationship between human and non-human animals.
James Zeigler American Book Review Lawlor's book is a superb example of contemporary Continental scholarship. Offering insightful reflections in the spirit ... Read more
James Zeigler American Book Review Lawlor's book is a superb example of contemporary Continental scholarship. Offering insightful reflections in the spirit ... Read more