The Rigor of a Certain Inhumanity: Toward a Wider Suffrage

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THE RIGOR OF A CERTAIN INHUMANITY Robert Bernasconi Rudolph Bernet John D. Caputo David Carr Edward S. Casey Hubert Dreyfus Don Ihde David Farrell Krell Lenore Langsdorf Alphonso Lingis J. N. Mohanty Mary Rawlinson Tom Rockmore Calvin O. Schrag Reiner Schürmann Charles E. Scott Thomas Sheehan Robert Sokolowski Bruce W. Wilshire David Wood Studies in Continental Thought John Sallis, editor Consulting Editors † William L. McBride Indiana University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis THE RIGOR OF A CERTAIN INHUMANITY TOWARD A WIDER SUFFRAGE JOHN LLEWELYN This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404–3797 USA iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800–842–6796 Fax orders 812–855–7931© 2012 by John Llewelyn All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording , or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Llewelyn, John. The rigor of a certain inhumanity : toward a wider suffrage / John Llewelyn. p. cm. — (Studies in Continental thought) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-253-00326-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-00579-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-00586-1 (electronic book) 1. Philosophical anthropology. 2. Phenomenology. 3. Derrida, Jacques. 4. Lévinas, Emmanuel. I. Title. BD450.L555 2012 128—dc23 2012005092 1 2 3 4 5 17 16 15 14 13 12 For David Wood in friendship and admiration it is perhaps more “worthy” of humanity to maintain . . . the rigor of a certain inhumanity. —Jacques Derrida They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational. —Wallace Stevens ...