Seeing Animals after Derrida:

✍ Scribed by Sarah Bezan (editor), James Tink (editor)

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies toward new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology prompts a renewed engagement with Derrida's animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida's treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a case for new philosophical approaches and aesthetic paradigms that challenge the ocularcentrism of Western culture.