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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'.
Contents
1. IntroductionThe Frontier or Abyss - and Animals as Good to ThinkThe Derrida Texts in Question and the Problem of Defining TermsSocio-political ContextsThe Philosophical Tradition: Aristotle to LevinasThe Modern Critical and Literary ContextSavages, Slaves and Women
2. Man is a Wolf to ManIntroduction: The Beast and the Sovereign and Lycological IntertextsLa Fontaine and the Fable of Might and RightRousseau and Hobbes: Wolves in the State of NatureWolves in the EncyclopédieFrom Hunger to Taste, and the Eating of FleshConcluding Comments
3. The Love of the WolfA Certain TraditionRenée Vivien and 'The Lady with the She-Wolf'Cixous and Other LovingLittle Red Riding Hood
4. The SavageBackground: the Ethnographic and Philosophic Encounter with the New World from La Fontaine OnwardsWhat is the Difference between 'Man' and 'Animal' (Savage)?Solitude, Social Characteristics and the Human Community: the Community of Cannibals?Derrida and 'Eating Well'
5. The SlaveSovereignty: Masters Defining SlavesThe Animal-thingThe Pretend Family of SlaveryThe Community and Terror: Letters from an American Farmer
6. Women and Other Animals: Working MetamorphosesFables: Duffy's 'Mrs Aesop'Work and Technology: Women as AnimalsMetamorphoses Porcine Metamorphosis: From Ulysses's Companions to DarrieussecqLove and Money in Marie Ndiaye's LadivineConclusion around Eating and Writing
7. Wanting ConclusionBlindness, Textual and HistoricalSelf-positing Man and EnlightenmentThe State and TerrorReturning to AnimalsWomen and EmotionStupid Conclusions and Gesturing to the Future.
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