A01=Judith Still
animals
Author_Judith Still
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cultural difference
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Helene Cixous
Jacques Derrida
sexual difference
the human
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- ISBN 9780748680979
- Weight: 755g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jul 2015
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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'.
Judith Still is Professor of French and Critical Theory and Head of the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Justice and Differences in the Works of Rousseau (CUP, 1993), Feminine Economies: Thinking against the Market in the Enlightenment and the Late Twentieth Century (MUP, 1997), Derrida and Hospitality (EUP, 2010, Gapper Prize winner 2011) and Enlightenment Hospitality (Voltaire Foundation, 2011).
