Deconstructing the animal
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Jacques Derrida, deconstruction, the animal questionAbstract
This paper examines the animal question from the perspective of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. It first proposes a detailed review of some publications on this topic in search of a general justification, before elucidating certain determinations of subjectivity based on metaphysics, especially language and the philosophical tradition. It concludes with an evaluation of the problem of “the purpose of the animal”, which Derrida posits from the deconstruction of the animal question itself.
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