Hopefully this isn’t too off-topic, but I thought this might be an interesting point of discussion. I wanted to re-visit a question that was brought up last week…someone had asked whether or not we could be friends with animals
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The reciprocal moment in friendship
Posted in Aristotle, Politics of Friendship, animals on October 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Derrida on animals
Posted in Adorno, animality, animals on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Summary post by Dustin Cloues : In “Magnetic Animal: Derrida, Wildlife, Animetaphor,” Akira Mizuta Lippit explores animal themes in the work of Derrida and other philosophers. Animals are not foreign to philosophy: it has long grappled with our similarities to, but deep differences from, other creatures. Freud and Heidegger both describe the philosophical [...]