عنوان

The beast and the sovereign /

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0226144283

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0226144305

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9780226144283

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9780226144306

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Title Proper

The beast and the sovereign /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jacques Derrida ; edited by Michel Lisse, Marie-Louise Mallet, and Ginette Michaud ; translated by Geoffrey Bennington.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2009-2011.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

2 v. :

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

Seminars of Jacques Derrida.

Text of Note

Translation of: Séminaire: la bête et le souverain.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

First Session: December 12, 2001 -- Second Session: December 19, 2001 -- Third Session: January 16, 2002 -- Fourth Session: January 23, 2002 -- Fifth Session: January 30, 2002 -- Sixth Session: February 6, 2002 -- Seventh Session: February 13, 2002 -- Eighth Session: February 20, 2002 -- Ninth Session: February 27, 2002 -- Tenth Session: March 6, 2002 -- Eleventh Session: March 13, 2002 -- Twelfth Session: March 20, 2002 -- Thirteenth Session: March 27, 2002.

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Text of Note

When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English. The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 launches the series with Derrida's exploration of the persistent association of bestiality or animality with sovereignty. In this seminar from 2001-2002, Derrida continues his deconstruction of the traditional determinations of the human. The beast and the sovereign are connected, he contends, because neither animals nor kings are subject to the law-the sovereign stands above it, while the beast falls outside the law from below. He then traces this association through an astonishing array of texts, including La Fontaine's fable "The Wolf and the Lamb," Hobbes's biblical sea monster in Leviathan, D. H. Lawrence's poem "Snake," Machiavelli's Prince with its elaborate comparison of princes and foxes, a historical account of Louis XIV attending an elephant autopsy, and Rousseau's evocation of werewolves in The Social Contract. Deleuze, Lacan, and Agamben also come into critical play as Derrida focuses in on questions of force, right, justice, and philosophical interpretations of the limits between man and animal.

Capital punishment.

Perjury.

Power (Philosophy)

Responsibility.

Sovereignty.

Class number

Book number

Derrida, Jacques.

Bennington, Geoffrey.

Lisse, Michel.

Mallet, Marie-Louise.

Michaud, Ginette,1955-

Date of Transaction

20111120064655.0

Electronic name

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