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Edward Said and the Post-Colonial by Bill Ashcroft & Pal Ahluwalia [Ashcroft, Bill & Ahluwalia, Pal] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled “The Autobiographical Animal,” the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session.The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction—dating from Descartes—between man as thinking animal and every other living species. That starts with the very fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the millions of other species that are reduced to a single “the animal.” Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it, surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses tothe question in the work of each of them.The book's autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and naked

Who reads Edward Said and the Post-Colonial?

Author

Bill Ashcroft & Pal Ahluwalia [Ashcroft, Bill & Ahluwalia, Pal]

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781032031019

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.16 / 5 (484 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14