Of Jews And Animals / / Andrew Benjamin.

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 ab...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 13 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 4 Indefinite 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