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The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows the remarkable itinerary of Jacques Derrida’s final seminar, “The Beast and the Sovereign” (2001–3), as the explicit themes of the seminar—namely, sovereignty and the question of the animal—come to be supplemented and interrupted by questions of death, mourning, survival, the archive, and, especially, the end of the world. The book begins with Derrida’s analyses, in the first year of the seminar, of the question of the animal in the context of his other published works on the same subject. It then follows Derrida through the second year of the seminar, presented in Paris from December 2002 to March 2003, as a very different tone begins to make itself heard, one that wavers between melancholy and an extraordinary lucidity with regard to the end. Focusing the entire year on just two works, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Martin Heidegger’s seminar of 1929–30, “The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics,” the seminar comes to be dominated by questions of the end of the world and of an originary violence that at once gives rise to and effaces all things. The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows Derrida as he responds from week to week to these emerging questions, as well as to important events unfolding around him, both world events—the aftermath of 9/11, the American invasion of Iraq—and more personal ones, from the death of Maurice Blanchot to intimations of his own death less than two years away. All this, the book concludes, makes this final seminar an absolutely unique work in Derrida’s corpus, one that both speaks of death as the end of the world and itself now testifies to that end—just one, though hardly the least, of its many teachable moments.

Philosophy. --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Animality. --- Death. --- Deconstruction. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Mourning. --- Sovereignty. --- World.

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In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously "the question of the animal."

Animal rights --- Species --- Humanism. --- Human-animal relationships in literature. --- Human-animal relationships in motion pictures. --- Philosophy. --- animal behavior, carnism, posthumanism, species, ethics, humanism, race, sexuality, animality, colonialism, philosophy, varela, maturana, zizek, derrida, levinas, lyotard, cavell, wittgenstein, ecology, rights, language, sacrifice, psychology, gender, hemingway, congo, silence of the lambs, michael crichton, nonfiction, zoology, anthropocentrism, other.

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Animal Narratology interrogates what it means to narrate, to speak—speak for, on behalf of—and to voice, or represent life beyond the human, which is in itself as different as insects, bears, and dogs are from each other, and yet more, as individual as a single mouse, horse, or puma. The varied contributions to this interdisciplinary Special Issue highlight assumptions about the human perception of, attitude toward, and responsibility for the animals that are read and written about, thus demonstrating that just as “the animal” does not exist, neither does “the human”. In their zoopoetic focus, the analyses are aware that animal narratology ultimately always contains an approximation of an animal perspective in human terms and terminology, yet they make clear that what matters is how the animal is approximated and that there is an effort to approach and encounter the non-human in the first place. Many of the analyses come to the conclusion that literary animals give readers the opportunity to expand their own points of view both on themselves and others by adopting another’s perspective to the degree that such an endeavor is possible. Ultimately, the contributions call for a recognition of the many spaces, moments, and modes in which human lives are entangled with those of animals—one of which is located within the creative bounds of storytelling.

animal narrators --- anthropocentrism --- cultural ontologies --- discourse analysis --- fiction–nonfiction distinction --- framing and footing --- life writing --- narratology --- politeness --- self-narratives --- animal studies --- human-animal studies --- speaking animals --- Tolstoy --- Bulgakov --- trauma theory --- Russian literature --- allegory --- humanism --- literary theory --- film studies --- George Orwell --- Animal Farm --- Chicken Run --- Uwe Timm --- ‘Morenga’ --- African history --- colonialism --- postcolonial German literature --- animal narratology --- multi-perspective narration --- animal agency --- The Plague Dogs --- Richard Adams --- unreliability --- talking animal stories --- non-human focalizer --- Pincher Martin --- non-human narrators --- intradiegetic narration --- Gerard Genette --- anthropomorphism --- Eric Linklater --- The Wind on the Moon --- direct speech --- characterization --- posthumanism --- inter-species comprehension --- Hindi cinema --- Bollywood --- animal narrator --- world literature --- empathy --- Cartesian dualism --- Maurice Merleau-Ponty --- animal poetry --- ‘Inventing a Horse --- ‘Spermaceti’ --- eco-humanities --- eco-criticism --- eco-philosophy --- Industrial Farm Animal Production --- narrative --- plot --- conflict --- environmental crisis --- catastrophe --- play theory --- Franz Kafka --- manuscripts --- speaking-for --- narrative representation --- literary representation --- animal autobiography --- fictional autobiography --- meta-autobiography --- contextualist narratology --- cultural and literary animal studies --- poetics of knowledge --- zoology --- natural history --- equine autozoography --- horse-science --- narrative voice --- inoperativity --- singing mice --- zoopoetics --- anthropological machine --- community --- music --- Cervantes --- Novelas ejemplares --- El coloquio de los perros --- Novela del casamiento engañoso --- Siglo de Oro --- Early Modern Age --- cynicism --- Diogenes of Sinope --- Montaigne --- Derrida --- Animal Studies --- rhetoric --- animal narration --- fable --- Aesopic fables --- Greek fable --- antagonistic fables --- comics --- animals --- cinema --- sound effects --- science fiction --- Achilles --- Archilochus --- fox --- Gryllus --- Hesiod --- Homer --- Lucian --- pig --- Plutarch --- Pythagoras --- rooster --- Xanthus --- talking dogs --- agency --- animal --- dystopia --- Marie Darrieussecq --- human --- non-human --- Truismes --- Kafka studies --- adaptation studies --- intertextuality --- intermediality --- mimesis --- emulation --- imitation --- repetition --- parody --- autobiography --- genre --- entanglement --- Cixous --- dogs --- earth --- worldviews --- indigenous wisdom traditions --- relationality --- ecology --- language --- more-than-human geography --- multispecies ethnography --- ecopsychology --- anthropology --- environmental philosophy --- decolonization --- intuition --- instinct --- myth --- non-verbal communication --- IK --- TEK --- animality --- film --- White God --- filmic representation of animals --- material ecocriticism --- Moby-Dick --- Werner Herzog --- Hans Sahl --- lyric poetry --- mole --- space --- time --- species --- metamorphosis --- transformation --- exile --- n/a --- fiction-nonfiction distinction --- 'Morenga' --- 'Inventing a Horse --- 'Spermaceti' --- Novela del casamiento engañoso