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    Derrida, los animales y el futuro de las humanidades
    Revista Disertaciones 10 (2): 7-20. 2021.
    En las páginas finales de “El futuro de la profesión o la universidad sin condición”, Derrida sugiere que el futuro de las humanidades tendrá que incluir un análisis de la historia de los conceptos que instituyen varias de las disciplinas que componen las humanidades. Dichos análisis históricos, señala, no habrían de ser neutrales. Por el contrario, estarían guiados por un intento de abrir estas disciplinas a modos de alteridad que no han sido pensados cuando se han constituido sus fundamentos. …Read more
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    Radicalizing Levinas (edited book)
    State University of New York Press. 2010.
    Levinas ahead of his time--and himself--on politics, postcolonialism and globalization, animals and the environment, and science and technology
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    The continental ethics reader (edited book)
    Routledge. 2003.
    The Continental Ethics Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings on ethics and moral philosophy from the major figures in Continental thought. The carefully selected readings are divided into five sections: Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Existentialism, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis and Feminism. All of the authors and their writings are introduced and placed in philosophical context by the editors. The Continental Ethics Reader is an ideal point of entry …Read more
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    The Meaning of Religious Practice
    with Emmanuel Levinas, Peter Atterton, and Joëlle Hansel
    Levinas Studies 5 1-4. 2010.
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    The Meaning of Religious Practice
    with Emmanuel Levinas, Peter Atterton, and Joëlle Hansel
    Levinas Studies 5 1-4. 2010.
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    Giorgio Agamben: sovereignty and life (edited book)
    Stanford University Press. 2007.
    This volume provides the first in-depth collection of essays aimed at critically examining the work of political philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
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    Belonging to This World: On Living Like an Animal in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin
    In Seán McCorry & John Miller (eds.), Literature and Meat Since 1900, Springer Verlag. pp. 197-211. 2019.
    Michel Faber’s novel Under the Skin tracks the transformation of the novel’s protagonist, Isserley, as she undergoes a crisis in her self-identity and drifts slowly but in a determined manner toward another way of life. Isserley works in the voddissin industry, which captures and transforms “vodsels” into consumable meat. As the novel unfolds, Isserley eventually comes to reject the meat industry and the subjugation of vodsels on which it is based. Here I suggest that Isserly’s subjective transf…Read more
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    Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life. Yet, consideration of the broader significance of the myriad social, ethical, and political issues related to roadkill has largely gone missing from mainstream scholarship and activism. This neglect persists even in fields such as mobility studies and animal studies that would otherwise seem to have a vested interest in the topic. This book aims to bring roadkill to the foreground of current discussions among scholars and activi…Read more
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    Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives (edited book)
    with Dominik Ohrem
    Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018.
    This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural, literary, and historical contexts. Exploring Animal Encounters encourages us to think about the richness and complexity of animal lives and human-animal relations, foregrounding the intricate roles nonhuman creatures play in the always already more-than-human sphere of ethics and politics. In this way, the essays in this volume can be understood as a contribution to alternative …Read more
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    Plato's pigs -- Aristotle's wonderful animals -- Cynicism's dogs -- Jainism's birds -- Plutarch's grunter -- Descartes' beast-machine -- Kant's elephants -- Bentham's suffering animal -- Nietzsche's overhuman animal -- Derrida's cat -- Adams's absent referent -- Plumwood's crocodile -- Haraway's companion species.
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    List of key concepts -- Introduction -- THE KEY CONCEPTS -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Animal Studies Journal 2021 10: [Review] Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani, editors. Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 341 pp.
  • Reviews (review)
    European Journal of Social Theory 2 (4): 504-507. 1999.
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    The rapidly expanding field of critical animal studies now offers a myriad of theoretical and philosophical positions from which to choose. This timely book provides an overview and analysis of the most influential of these trends. Approachable and concise, it is intended for readers sympathetic to the project of changing our ways of thinking about and interacting with animals yet relatively new to the variety of philosophical ideas and figures in the discipline. It uses three rubrics—identity, …Read more
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    The aim of this essay is to examine the status and promise of Emmanuel Levinas’s humanism for a posthuman and more-than-human age. I suggest that, even though Levinas’s approach partially r...
  • Subjects of Conscience: Essays on Ethics and Animality in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton. 2001.
    The present dissertation begins with a discussion of the motif of conscience as it appears in the work of three prominent contemporary continental philosophers: Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. These three thinkers offer strikingly original analyses of the concept of conscience that promise to help us rethink the place of the ethical in contemporary thought. Typically, both in the history of philosophy and in much of contemporary moral discourse, conscience is understood …Read more
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    In recent years Derrida has devoted a considerable number of writings to addressing “the question of the animal,” and, more often than not, this question arises in a reading of one of Heidegger's texts. In order to appreciate more fully the stakes of Derrida's posing of this question in relation to Heidegger, in this essay I offer some prefatory remarks to the question of the animal in Derrida's reading of Heidegger. The essay opens with a careful analysis of Derrida's early essay “The Ends of M…Read more
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    The Animal Question (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 36 (4): 109-111. 2004.
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    Heidegger’s Secret
    International Studies in Philosophy 32 (1): 23-43. 2000.
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    The Man Without Content (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 35 (1): 128-129. 2003.
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    On the Borders of Language and Death
    Philosophy Today 44 (Supplement): 91-97. 2000.
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    Deconstruction is not vegetarianism: Humanism, subjectivity, and animal ethics
    Continental Philosophy Review 37 (2): 175-201. 2004.
    This essay examines Jacques Derrida’s contribution to recent debates in animal philosophy in order to explore the critical promise of his work for contemporary discourses on animal ethics and vegetarianism. The essay is divided into two sections, both of which have as their focus Derrida’s interview with Jean-Luc Nancy entitled “‘Eating Well’, or the Calculation of the Subject.” My task in the initial section is to assess the claim made by Derrida in this interview that Levinas’s work is dogmati…Read more
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    The Animal Question (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 36 (4): 109-111. 2004.
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    Heidegger’s Secret
    International Studies in Philosophy 32 (1): 23-43. 2000.
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    Working Through Derrida
    Symposium 2 (2): 242-246. 1998.
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    Reading derrida’s own conscience: From the question to the call
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 30 (3): 283-301. 2004.
    This paper explores two different methods of reading ‘Derrida’s own conscience’ – that is, of raising the question of ethics and obligation in deconstruction. The two readings under discussion here are staged by Jean-Luc Nancy in his seminal essay ‘The Free Voice of Man’. In the first half of the paper, I engage in a reading of Nancy’s essay in which I seek not only to highlight Nancy’s double formulation of the place of ethics in deconstruction, but also to re-mark the transition in Derrida’s w…Read more