Of Jews and animals /
"A philosophical concern with animals has played a central role within contemporary philosophical discussions since Peter Singer's work in the 1980s. However, recently within the field of Continental Philosophy the question of the animal has become an important area of academic inquiry. In...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Frontiers of theory
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Table of Contents:
- Living and being : Descartes' "animal spirits" and Heidegger's dog
- The insistent dog : Blanchot and the community without animals
- Indefinite play and "the name of man" : anthropocentrism's deconstruction
- What if the other were an animal : Hegel on Jews, animals and disease
- Agamben on "Jews" and "animals"
- Force, justice and the Jew : Pascal's Pensées 102 and 103
- Facing Jews
- Animals, Jews.