Hayvan Olarak Ben

Özet (abstract)

Theorists constantly remind us that words like "nature," "God," "civilization," or "consciousness," except in the most restrictive contexts, have nothing close to the sort of precision that we usually expect from academic work, and it is very easy to dismiss them as incoherent or even meaningless.But, to the immense frustration of many positivists, analytic philosophers, and deconstructionists, no amount of critique or complaint ever seems to make such words disappear.They grow and evolve in ways that seem well beyond the control of those who use them (as even their critics almost always do), as if the words themselves were alive.In The Animal that Therefore I Am, Derrida expresses his intense opposition to the concept of the "Animal":Confined within this catch-all concept, within this vast encampment of the animal, in this general singular, within the strict enclosure of this definite article ('the Animal' and not 'animals'), as in a virgin forest, a zoo, a hunting or fishing ground, a paddock or an abattoir, a space of domestication, are all the living things that man does not recog-nize as his fellows, his neighbors, or his brothers.And that is so in spite of the infinite space that If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at https://networks.h-net.org/

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