Animals, before Me, with Whom I Live, by Whom I Am Addressed:
Animals, before Me, with Whom I Live, by Whom I Am Addressed:
Writing after Derrida
In this essay, Glen A. Mazis descends deeply into Jacques Derrida's The Animal That Therefore I Am and The Beast and the Sovereign, writing after Derrida but also with and beyond Derrida. In this task, Mazis is aided by Jean-Christophe Bailly and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In the second half of his essay, Mazis takes up Derrida's discourse on the wolf as a traditional figure of human rapacity, and pushes beyond that discourse to engage with the history of human predation on the wolf. That horrific history, for Mazis, is emblematic of a systematic misrecognition that has turned the animal world into a world that humans no longer know how to inhabit or even to see.
Keywords: Animality studies, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Wolves
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