Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editors Preface -- Opening -- Chapter 1 Of Jews and Animals -- Part I -- Chapter 2 Living and Being: Descartes 8216;Animal Spirits and Heideggers Dog -- Chapter 3 The Insistent Dog: Blanchot and the Community without Animals -- Chapter 4 Indefinite Play and 8216;The Name of Man: Anthropocentrisms Deconstruction -- Part II -- Chapter 5 What If the Other Were an Animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease -- Chapter 6 Agamben on 8216;Jews and 8216;Animals -- Chapter 7 Force, Justice and the Jew: Pascals Pens233;es 102 and 103 -- Chapter 8 Facing Jews -- Another opening -- Chapter 9 Animals, Jews -- Index
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
Of Jews and animals
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Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
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...
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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
Verlag:
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
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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...
mehr
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.
