Demenageries: Thinking (Of) Animals After Derrida
Berger, Anne Emmanuelle / Segarra, Marta
IDemenageries, Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida/I is a collection of essays on animality following Jacques Derrida's work. The Western philosophical tradition separated animals from men by excluding the former from everything that was considered "proper to man": laughing, suffering, mourning, and above all, thinking. The "animal" has traditionally been considered the absolute Other of humans. This radical otherness has served as the rationa...