Of Jews And Animals / / Andrew Benjamin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Benjamin, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 13 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Series Editor’s Preface --; Opening --; Chapter 1 Of Jews and Animals --; Part I --; Chapter 2 Living and Being: Descartes’ ‘Animal Spirits’ and Heidegger’s Dog --; Chapter 3 The Insistent Dog: Blanchot and the Community without Animals --; Chapter 4 Indefinite Play and ‘The Name of Man’: Anthropocentrism’s Deconstruction --; Part II --; Chapter 5 What If the Other Were an Animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease --; Chapter 6 Agamben on ‘Jews’ and ‘Animals’ --; Chapter 7 Force, Justice and the Jew: Pascal’s Pensées 102 and 103 --; Chapter 8 Facing Jews --; Another opening --; Chapter 9 Animals, Jews --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748642311; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748642311
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrew Benjamin.

By developing his own conception of the 'figure' Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals.As Benjamin makes clear the 'Other' is never abstract. He underscores the means by which the ethical imperative, arising from the way the history of philosophy and the history of art are constructed, shows us how to respond to an already identified, even if unacknowledged, determinant other.