Derrida and Our Animal Others: Derrida's Final Seminar, the Beast and the Sovereign

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Derrida and Our Animal Others Studies in Continental Thought EDITOR JOHN SALLIS CONSULTING EDITORS Robert Bernasconi William L. McBride Rudolf Bernet J. N. Mohanty John D. Caputo Mary Rawlinson David Carr Tom Rockmore Edward S. Casey Calvin O. Schrag Hubert L. Dreyfus †Reiner Schürmann Don Ihde Charles E. Scott David Farrell Krell Thomas Sheehan Lenore Langsdorf Robert Sokolowski Alphonso Lingis Bruce W. Wilshire David Wood DerriDa and Our Animal Others DER R I DA’S FI NA L SEM I NA R, “T H E BEAST A N D T H E SOV ER EIGN” David Farrell Krell Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931© 2013 by David Farrell Krell 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 Krell, David Farrell. Derrida and our animal others : Derrida’s final seminar, “The beast and the sovereign” / David Farrell Krell. pages cm. — (Studies in Continental thought) Includes index. ISBN 978-0-253-00924-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-00933-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-00945-6 (electronic book) 1. Derrida, Jacques. 2. Philosophy, French—20th century. 3. Power (Social sciences)—Philosophy. 4. Sovereignty . 5. Responsibility. 6. Animals (Philosophy) I. Title. B2430.D484K73 2013 194—dc23 2013001956 1 2 3 4 5 18 17 16 15 14 13 In memory of jd and for my esteemed colleagues and dear friends dawne mccance and michael naas This page intentionally left blank Der Gerechte ist der Fürsprech der Kreatur und zugleich ihre höchste Verkörperung. (“The just person is the advocate of all living beings and at the same time their supreme embodiment.”) —Walter Benjamin, Der Erzähler XVII This page intentionally left blank ...