Seeing Animals after Derrida (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)

Seeing Animals after DerridaAuthor(s): Sarah Bezan, James Tink, Jos Alaniz, David Brooks, Megan E. Cannella, Bonnie Gill, David Huebert, Nicole Mennell, Malin Palani, Rodolfo Piskorski\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498540599, 978-1498540599\nSynopsis\nThis volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's 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 Derrida's animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida's treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a .