Leonard Lawlor is Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is the author of five books: The Implications of Immanence: Towards a New Concept of Life; Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology; Thinking Through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question; The Challenge of Bergsonism: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics; and Imagination and Chance: The Difference Between the Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida. He is the coeditor of Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty and has written dozens of articles on Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and Gadamer. He is currently translating Merleau-Ponty's L'institution, la passivite and writing a book to be called Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy: Towards the Outside.

This book is a crucial opening to the discussion of animality from within a deconstructionist perspective... Recommended. CHOICE A succinct and remarkable book on the late Jacques Derrida's unfinished writing about the relationship between human and non-human animals. -- James Zeigler American Book Review Lawlor's book is a superb example of contemporary Continental scholarship. Offering insightful reflections in the spirit of Derrida. -- Corinne Painter Continental Philosophy Review

• List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. War and Scapegoats 2. Animals Have No Hand 3. A More Sufficient Response? Conclusion: The Generation of the Incorruptibles Notes Bibliography Index

Leonard Lawlor is Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is the author of five books: The Implications of Immanence: Towards a New Concept of Life; Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology; Thinking Through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question; The Challenge of Bergsonism: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics; and Imagination and Chance: The Difference Between the Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida. He is the coeditor of Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty and has written dozens of articles on Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and Gadamer. He is currently translating Merleau-Ponty's L'institution, la passivite and writing a book to be called Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy: Towards the Outside.

This book is a crucial opening to the discussion of animality from within a deconstructionist perspective... Recommended. CHOICE A succinct and remarkable book on the late Jacques Derrida's unfinished writing about the relationship between human and non-human animals. -- James Zeigler American Book Review Lawlor's book is a superb example of contemporary Continental scholarship. Offering insightful reflections in the spirit of Derrida. -- Corinne Painter Continental Philosophy Review

• List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. War and Scapegoats 2. Animals Have No Hand 3. A More Sufficient Response? Conclusion: The Generation of the Incorruptibles Notes Bibliography Index