Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II
Engelsk Paperback
The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II
Engelsk Paperback

363 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
6 - 8 hverdage

Om denne bog
Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002 2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses on two markedly different texts: Heidegger's 1929 1930 course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. As he moves back and forth between the two works, Derrida pursuesthe relations between solitude, insularity, world, violence, boredom and death as they supposedly affect humans and animals in different ways. Hitherto unnoticed or underappreciated aspects of Robinson Crusoe are brought out in strikingly original readings of questions such as Crusoe's belief in ghosts, his learning to pray, his parrot Poll, and his reinvention of the wheel. Crusoe's terror of being buried alive or swallowed alive by beasts or cannibals gives rise to a rich and provocative reflection on death, burial, and cremation, in part provoked by a meditation on the death of Derrida's friend Maurice Blanchot. Throughout, these readings are juxtaposed with interpretations of Heidegger's concepts of world and finitude to produce a distinctively Derridean account that will continue to surprise his readers.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780226478531
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022647853X
Udg. Dato:
2 feb 2017
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
164mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
2 feb 2017
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge