Jacques Derrida's final seminars were devoted to animal life and political sovereignty-the connection being that animals slavishly adhere to the law while kings and gods tower above it and that this relationship reveals much about humanity in the West. David Farrell Krell offers a detailed account of these seminars, placing them in the context of Derrida's late work and his critique of Heidegger. Krell focuses his discussion on questions such as death, language, and animality. He concludes that Heidegger and Derrida share a commitment to finding new ways of speaking and thinking about human and animal life.
- ISBN10 0253009456
- ISBN13 9780253009456
- Publish Date 18 June 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 192
- Language English