Andrew Benjamin

Of Jews and Animals

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Produktbeschreibung

AUTHOR-APPROVED NO SERIES PANEL Of Jews and Animals Andrew Benjamin 'Andrew Benjamin has written an original and provocative meditation on the place of the "figure" of the animal in modern philosophy and culture. The book is remarkable for its sensitivity to the issue of visibility and the use of visual material. The engagement with the philosophical history of art is beautifully sustained and serves not only to work through the theme of figuration but also to make the philosophical narrative available to a wider range of readers.' Howard Caygill, Goldsmith's College, University of London 'A stimulating book which will help those readers who, interested in the work of Agamben and the late Derrida, wish to reflect more on the image of the animal in classical continental philosophy.' Peter Fenves, Department of German, Northwestern University /Investigates the relationship between philosophy, art and their presentation of both Jews and animals/ By developing his own conception of the 'figure', Andrew Benjamin makes clear the 'Other' is never abstract. He underscores the means by which the ethical imperative, arising from the way the history of philosophy and the history of art are constructed, shows us how to respond to an already identified, even if unacknowledged, determinant other. Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics and Director of the Research Unit in European Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780748643172
• ISBN-10: 0748643176
• Artikelnr.: 33766145

Autorenporträt

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Monash University where he is a member of both the Department of Philosophy and the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation. He also holds the positions of Distinguished Anniversary Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Kingston University in London and Distinguished Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Technology Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Opening
1. Of Jews and Animals
Part 1
2. Living and Being: Descartes' 'Animal Spirits' and Heidegger's Dog
3. The Insistent Dog: Blanchot and the Community without Animals
4. Indefinite Play and the 'Name of Man': Anthropocentrism's Deconstruction
Part 2
5. What if the other were an animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease
6. Agamben on 'Jews' and 'Animals'
7. Force, Justice and Jews: Pascal's Pensées 102 and 103
8. Facing Jews
Another Opening
9. Animals Jews.