Of Jews And Animals

AvAndrew Benjamin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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By developing his own conception of the 'figure' Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals.As Benjamin makes clear the 'Other' is never abstract. He underscores the means by which the ethical imperative, arising from the way the history of philosophy and the history of art are constructed, shows us how to respond to an already identified, even if unacknowledged, determinant other.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-08
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:459 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Frontiers of Theory
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748640539

Utforska kategorier

Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Konstteori inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Andrew Benjamin is an Honorary Professor in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has held posts in a number of UK and Australian universities. He started his career at the University of Warwick rising to the position of Professor of Philosophy and until 2022 taught for one semester each year at Kingston University in London where he was associated with the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy. He is the author of numerous books including Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy (2013) and Of Jews and Animals (2011) both published by Edinburgh University Press.

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Andrew Benjamin has written an original and provocative meditation on the place of the 'figure' of the animal in modern philosophy and culture. The book is remarkable for its sensitivity to the issue of visibility and the use of visual material. The engagement with the philosophical history of art is beautifully sustained and serves not only to work through the theme of figuration but also to make the philosophical narrative available to a wider range of readers

Innehållsförteckning

Opening; 1. Of Jews and Animals; Part 1; 2. Living and Being: Descartes' 'Animal Spirits' and Heidegger's Dog; 3. The Insistent Dog: Blanchot and the Community without Animals; 4. Indefinite Play and the 'Name of Man': Anthropocentrism's Deconstruction; Part 2; 5. What if the other were an animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease; 6. Agamben on 'Jews' and 'Animals'; 7. Force, Justice and Jews: Pascal's Pensées 102 and 103; 8. Facing Jews; Another Opening; 9. Animals Jews.