Of Jews and animals
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Of Jews and animals
（The frontiers of theory）
Edinburgh University Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
By developing his own conception of the 'figure' Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals. As 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.
Table of Contents
- 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 Pensees 102 and 103
- 8. Facing Jews
- Another Opening
- 9. Animals Jews.
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