Sarah Bezan (EDT), James Tink (EDT) Seeing Animals after Derrida

Annotation

This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derridas 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 Derridas animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derridas 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.