Overview

Explores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the `animal question’ How does deconstruction understand relations between humans and other animals? This book reveals that across Jacques Derrida’s work as a whole, as well as that of Hélène Cixous and Nicholas Royle, deconstruction has always addressed questions about animality. In this collection, for example, Cixous asks after human intervention between the death of a wild bird and the predation of a domestic cat; Royle examines in what sense the vulnerable impressions made by the tunnelling of a mole might be thought of as the traces of a text; Kelly Oliver pursues Derrida’s analysis of what or whose gaze is at stake when a King oversees the autopsy of an elephant. Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of ourselves. Throughout this collection authors bring to attention the politics and the poetics of a less anthropocentric world. Even when this world is grasped through very writerly fields such as philosophy, literature and autobiography, The Animal Question in Deconstruction demonstrates that we are always marked by traces of other animals. Key Features • Expands the current debate on the `animal question’ through new essays by established authors, such as Peggy Kamuf, Sarah Wood and Judith Still, that critically examine a wide range of texts by Derrida, Cixous and Royle • Includes the first English translation of `Un Réfugié’ by Hélène Cixous, showing how her approach to relations between humans and other animals is similar to but distinct from that of Derrida • Republishes Nicholas Royle’s ground-breaking essay 'Mole'

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Author:   Lynn Turner
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.316kg
ISBN:  

9780748683130

ISBN 10:   0748683135
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   19 August 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: This Animal Question in Deconstruction, Lynn Turner; 1. A Refugee, Helene Cixous; 2. Swans of Life (External Provocations & Autobiographical Flights That Teach Us How to Read), Sarah Wood; 3. Love of the Lowe, reading Derrida with a Roar, Marie-Dominique Garnier; 4. Insect Asides, Lynn Turner; 5. S P O N G E Inc, Laurent Milesi; 6. Elephant Eulogy: The Exorbitant Orb of an Elephant, Kelly Oliver; 7. Troubling Resemblances, Anthropological Machines & the Fear of Wild Animals: following Derrida after Agamben, Stephen Morton; 8. Derrida, Rousseau, Cixous and Tsvetaeva: Sexual Difference and the Love of the Wolf, Judith Still; 9. Deconstructing Sexual Difference, A Myopic Reading of Helene Cixous' Mole, Marta Segarra; 10. Your Worm, Peggy Kamuf; 11. Mole, Nicholas Royle.

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...the collection as a whole contributes importantly to filling the need for critical work exploring how humans think about and relate to nonhuman animals. -- Kelly C. MacPhail, Philosophy in Review XXXV, no 3

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Lynn Turner is Lecturer in Visual Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London.

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