Research Catalog

Title

Of Jews and animals / Andrew Benjamin.

Author

Benjamin, Andrew E.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.

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Description

xii, 196 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"A philosophical concern with animals has played a central role within contemporary philosophical discussions since Peter Singer's work in the 1980s. However, recently within the field of Continental Philosophy the question of the animal has become an important area of academic inquiry. In addition, work on the figure of the Jew has for years been an area of scholarly investigation." "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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Frontiers of theory

Uniform Title

Frontiers of theory.

Subject

• Human figure in art
• Painting > Philosophy
• Jews in art
• Animals in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Living and being : Descartes' "animal spirits" and Heidegger's dog -- The insistent dog : Blanchot and the community without animals -- Indefinite play and "the name of man" : anthropocentrism's deconstruction -- What if the other were an animal : Hegel on Jews, animals and disease -- Agamben on "Jews" and "animals" -- Force, justice and the Jew : Pascal's Pensées 102 and 103 -- Facing Jews -- Animals, Jews.

ISBN

• 9780748640539 (hbk.)
• 0748640533 (hbk.)

OCLC

499076061

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library