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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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A turn to the animal is underway in the humanities, most obviously in such fields as philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. One important catalyst for this development has been the remarkable body of animal theory issuing from such thinkers as Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway. What might the resulting interdisciplinary field, commonly termed animality studies, mean for theology, biblical studies, and other cognate disciplines? Is it possible to move from animal theory to creaturely theology? This volume is the first full-length attempt to grapple centrally with these questions. It attempts to triangulate philosophical and theoretical reflections on animality and humanity with theological reflections on divinity. If the animal–human distinction is being rethought and retheorized as never before, then the animal–human–divine distinctions need to be rethought, retheorized, and retheologized along with it. This is the task that the multidisciplinary team of theologians, biblical scholars, philosophers, and historians assembled in this volume collectively undertakes. They do so frequently with recourse to Derrida’s animal philosophy and also with recourse to an eclectic range of other relevant thinkers, such as Haraway, Giorgio Agamben, Emmanuel Levinas, Gloria Anzaldua, Helene Cixous, A. N. Whitehead, and Lynn White Jr. The result is a volume that will be essential reading for religious studies audiences interested in ecological issues, animality studies, and post humanism, as well as for animality studies audiences interested in how constructions of the divine have informed constructions of the nonhuman animal through history.

Animals (Philosophy) --- Animals --- Ecotheology. --- Religious aspects. --- Donna Haraway. --- Jacques Derrida. --- animality. --- animals. --- biblical interpretation. --- ecology. --- ecotheology. --- posthumanism.

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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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Indagare la dimensione dell’animalità nella storia degli studi teatrali implica la pluridisciplinarietà che è parte della nuova teatrologia, da sempre in dialogo con le scienze umane (antropologia, sociologia, semiotica) e con le neuroscienze. L’intento di questa raccolta di saggi è quello di iniziare a tracciare una storia del teatro come storia mista umana e non-umana – per la quale si rende necessario un dialogo con le scienze naturali, in particolar modo con l’etologia e con la zooantropologia, e di riattraversare in modo fruttuoso l’intera storia dei generi performativi, all’interno dei quali le performance interspecie si rivelano come una pratica originaria e costitutiva. In questo senso l’ottica sperimentale e multidisciplinare dei Critical Animal Studies risulta il terreno comune attraverso cui sono organizzati i contributi che compongono il volume e che spaziano dalla teoria della performance, all’etnoscenologia, dalla zooantropologia alla zoosemiotica, dalla filosofia all’etologia, senza tralasciare il punto di vista degli artisti della scena contemporanea.

Theater --- animalità nella storia degli studi teatrali --- storia del teatro umana e non-umana --- performance interspecie --- Critical Animal Studies --- etnoscenologia --- zooantropologia --- zoosemiotica --- filosofia all’etologia --- animalité dans l'histoire des études théâtrales --- histoire du théâtre humain et non humain --- performance interspécifique --- ethnoscénologie --- zooanthropologie --- zoosémiotique --- philosophie de l'éthologie --- animality in the history of theatrical studies --- human and non-human theater history --- interspecies performance --- ethnoscenology --- zooanthropology --- zoosemiotics --- philosophy of ethology

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"Becoming Human" explores matter and meaning in an antiblack world"--

Literature --- African diaspora in literature --- Black people in literature --- Africans in literature --- Black people --- Humanism in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Black authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Race identity --- Black identity --- Blackness (Race identity) --- Negritude --- Race identity of Black people --- Racial identity of Black people --- Ethnicity --- Race awareness --- Blacks in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- #SBIB:316.7C213 --- #SBIB:309H515 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:1H30 --- Cultuursociologie: letterkunde, literatuur --- Literatuurwetenschap, literatuursociologie --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Filosofie van de mens, wijsgerige antropologie --- Black authors --- African diaspora in literature. --- Africans in literature. --- Blacks in literature. --- Blacks --- Humanism in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American. --- Race identity. --- History and criticism. --- Black authors. --- COLONIAL MYTHS OF RACIAL HIERARCHY -- 325 --- Sociology of minorities --- Black people in literature. --- Blacks as literary characters --- Black literature --- Negro literature --- Africans as literary characters --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Achille Mbembe. --- Animality. --- Audre Lorde. --- Biomedicine. --- Biopolitics. --- Blackness. --- Catherine Malabou. --- Collage. --- Denise Ferriera da Silva. --- Ecology. --- Empiricism. --- Epigenetics. --- Ernst Haeckel. --- Evolution. --- Female Body. --- Frederick Douglass. --- Gender. --- Gynecology. --- Humanism. --- Insect Poetics. --- John Locke. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Masculinity. --- Materiality. --- Metaphysics. --- Nalo Hopkinson. --- Necropolitics. --- Nonhuman. --- Octavia Butler. --- Photography. --- Plasticity. --- Posthumanism. --- Race. --- Reproductive Justice. --- Sexuality. --- Slave Narrative. --- Slavery. --- Symbiosis. --- Wangechi Mutu. --- Worlding. --- History --- Colonialism --- Art --- Racism --- Theory --- Blackness --- Book --- Animals --- Imaging