The Rigor of a Certain Inhumanity: Toward a Wider Suffrage

Acknowledgements

Chapters 1 and 2 are based on “Representation in Language,” in Ananta Sukla, ed., Art and Representation (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001), pp. 29–59; chapter 3 on “Close Reading, Distant Writing, and the Experience of Language,” in Ananta Sukla, ed., Art and Experience (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003), pp. 20–41; chapter 4 on the chapter in Welsh on Edmund Husserl in John Daniel and Walford L. Gealy, eds., Hanes Athroniaeth y Gorllewin (History of Western Philosophy) (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009); chapter 6 on “Meanings Reserved, Re-served and Reduced,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy XXXII, Spindel Conference 1993, Supp. vol., Derrida’s Interpretation of Husserl, 1994, pp. 27–54; chapter 7 on “Approaches to (Quasi-) Theology Via Appresentation,” Research in Phenomenology 39, no. 2, Engaging the Religious (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. 224–247; chapter 8 on “Am I Obsessed by Bobby? (Humanism of the Other Animal),” in Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley, eds., Re-Reading Levinas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), pp. 234–245, adapted as chapter 3 of my The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience: A Chiasmic Reading of Responsibility in the Neighbourhood of Levinas, Heidegger and Others (London: Macmillan; New York, St. Martins Press, 1991); chapter 9 on “Who or What or Whot,” in J. Aaron Simmons and David Wood, eds., Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), pp. 69–81; chapter 10 on “Ecosophy, Sophophily and Philotheria,” in Pierfrancesco Basile and Leemon B. McHenry, eds., Consciousness, Reality and Value: Philosophical Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge (Frankfurt am Main: Ontos, 2007), pp. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xii | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 259–273; chapter 11 on “Pursuing Levinas and Ferry toward a Newer and More Democratic Ecological Order,” in Peter Atterton and Matthew Calarco, eds., Radicalizing Levinas (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), pp. 95–111; chapter 12 on “Where to Cut: Boucherie and Delikatessen,” Research in Phenomenology 40, no. 2, The Non-human Animal (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 161–187; chapter 13 on the French text of endnote 22 to chapter 13 of my Margins of Religion: Between Kierkegaard and Derrida (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009). I thank the editors and publishers for granting permission to adapt these items for publication here. I am greatly indebted to Dee Mortensen, Angela Burton, Sarah Jacobi, Marvin Keenan, and Emma Young for their expertise in the editing of this book, to my brother Howard and my nephew Simon for rescuing me at times of crisis with the electronics, and to my wife Margaret, my brother David, and all other members of our families for their encouragement and cooperation. John Sallis and François Raffoul were sine quibus non. THE RIGOR OF A CERTAIN INHUMANITY ...