Of Jews And Animals.
Title:
Of Jews And Animals.
Author:
Benjamin, Andrew.
ISBN:
9780748642311
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Series:
The Frontiers of Theory
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editor's Preface -- Opening -- Chapter 1 Of Jews and Animals -- Part I -- Chapter 2 Living and Being: Descartes' 'Animal Spirits' and Heidegger's Dog -- Chapter 3 The Insistent Dog: Blanchot and the Community without Animals -- Chapter 4Indefi nite Play and 'The Name of Man': Anthropocentrism's Deconstruction -- Part II -- Chapter 5 What If the Other Were an Animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease -- Chapter 6 Agamben on 'Jews' and 'Animals' -- Chapter 7 Force, Justice and the Jew: Pascal's Pensées 102 and 103 -- Chapter 8 Facing Jews -- Another opening -- Chapter 9 Animals, Jews -- Index.
Abstract:
In 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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