Seeing Animals After Derrida

This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies toward new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology prompts a renewed engagement with Derrida's animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida's treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a case for new philosophical approaches and aesthetic paradigms that challenge the ocularcentrism of Western culture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498540597
• ISBN13: 9781498540599
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"