- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (Nov 1 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0226144283
- ISBN-13: 978-0226144283
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.6 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 540 g
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“What this first volume . . . provides beyond its treatment of the fascinatingly intricate literary and philosophical motifs of bestiality and sovereignty is a vivid attestation to the experience of Derrida as a teacher—the quality of his attention, the tone and rhythm of his voice, his means of sparking his students capacities’ to read and think.”
(Times Literary Supplement )“This superb translation of 13 previously unpublished lectures by Derrida is the first in a remarkable project. . . . What Derrida accomplishes in this, his final seminar, is remarkable because it goes to the very heart of his lifelong project of deconstructing the logocentric bias of Western thinking."
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When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English.
The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 launches the series with Derrida’s exploration of the persistent association of bestiality or animality with sovereignty. In this seminar from 2001–2002, Derrida continues his deconstruction of the traditional determinations of the human. The beast and the sovereign are connected, he contends, because neither animals nor kings are subject to the law—the sovereign stands above it, while the beast falls outside the law from below. He then traces this association through an astonishing array of texts, including La Fontaine’s fable “The Wolf and the Lamb,” Hobbes’s biblical sea monster in Leviathan, D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Snake,” Machiavelli’s Prince with its elaborate comparison of princes and foxes, a historical account of Louis XIV attending an elephant autopsy, and Rousseau’s evocation of werewolves in The Social Contract.
Deleuze, Lacan, and Agamben also come into critical play as Derrida focuses in on questions of force, right, justice, and philosophical interpretations of the limits between man and animal.
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none of us are strong on stupidity, Oct 8 2011
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This review is from: The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I (Hardcover)
I am already on page 179 and being reminded that the first sentence of a French work:Translated into
English, you remember,
this gave:
"I am not very
strong on stupidity."
German and English have different words for stupidity than the usual form of French used to excuse oneself for a mental blunder. The big problem is:
that properly human animality
supposedly free, responsible,
and not reactive or reactional,
capable of telling the difference
between good and evil, capable of
doing evil for evil's sake, etc. (p. 179).
Among the obscure points near the end of the book, two meanings are discussed for the Greek word autopsia. (p. 294). I would prefer the rare meaning to be interpreted as:
Among those who dwell with the gods are spearchuckers in the war on the dead.
Americans tend to join the money mudslide just to provide themselves with ways to pay for their own home entertainment. As a fan of popular music, character is fate for me when it is like bad poetry:
Having grown used to
Bob Dylan's you stew
is like jumping into Derrida questions like:
The threshold: to ask oneself,
"What is the threshold?"
is to ask oneself "How to begin?"
"How to begin?" we are asking
ourselves very close to the
provisional end of our first meridian,
our first circle or return of the line.
How to begin again? (p. 312).
Back on page 296, "curiosity" is proposed for "a certain analogical passage between the modern and postrevolutionary zoological garden and psychiatric institutions, insane asylums." History would like progress to produce "an ecosystem that was not without a certain improvement in the living conditions of both animals and the mentally ill." (p. 297). Then treatment is linked with "the two other words we have brought back to themselves, autopsy and curiosity." (p. 299).
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