The animal that therefore I am

The Animal That Therefore I Am

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-176

  Derrida, Jacques ^a   Mallet, Marie Louise ^a  

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References (72)

1. Jacques Derrida, "L'animal que donc je suis (à suivre)," in L'animal autobiographique, ed. Marie-Louise Mallet (Paris: Galilée, 1999);
2. "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)," trans. David Wills, Critical Inquiry 28, 2 (2002): 369-418. The parenthesis also reminds us that we would have to hear the je suis of the title in at least two registers, those of being [être] and following [suivre].
3. Jacques Derrida, "Et si l'animal répondait?" in Cahier de L'Herne, no. 83, Jacques Derrida, ed. Marie-Louis Mallet and Ginette Michaud (Paris: L'Herne, 2004);
4. "And Say the Animal Responded," trans. David Wills, in Zoontologies: the Question of the Animal, ed. Cary Wolfe (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). Earlier translations have been revised for this volume.
5. Jacques Derrida, "The Ends of Man," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 30, 1 (1969): 31-57;
6. " 'Geschlecht': Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference," trans. Ruben Berezdivin, in A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds, ed. Peggy Kamuf (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 380-402;
7. "Heidegger's Hand (Geschlecht II)," trans. John P. Leavey, Jr., in Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida, ed. John Sallis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 161-96;
8. Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989);
9. "Heidegger's Ear: Philopolemology (Geschlecht IV)," trans. John P. Leavey, Jr., in Reading Heidegger, ed. John Sallis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 163-218;
10. Aporias, trans. Thomas Dutoit (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994).
11. Sarah Kofman, Autobiogriffures: Du chat Murr d'Hoffmann (Paris: Galilée, 1984).
12. Michel de Montaigne, "Apology for Raymond Sebond," in The Complete Works of Montaigne, trans. Donald M. Frame (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1957).
13. Rainer Maria Rilke, "Schwarze Katze," in Neue Gedichte / New Poems, trans. Stephen Cohn (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1992), 202-3 (on another, later occasion, I'll have to try to read this poem that I have rediscovered thanks to Werner Hamacher).
14. "An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. . . . Sometimes I look into a cat's eyes" (Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. Ronald Gregor Smith [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958], 96-97).
15. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, in The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (New York: Modern Library, 1936), 268.
16. Derrida's French reference is Alice au pays des merveilles: De l'autre côté du miroir, trans. Jacques Papy, ed. Jean Gattegno (Paris: Gallimard, 1994).
17. First published under the title "Che cos'è la poesia?" in the Italian revue Poesia 1, 11 (1988); reprinted in Po&sie 50 (1989), and finally in Points de suspension-Entretiens (Paris: Galilée, 1992); "Che cos'è la poesia?" trans.
18. Peggy Kamuf, in Jacques Derrida, Points . . .: Interviews 1974-1994, ed. Elisabeth Weber (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995).
19. Carroll, Looking Glass, 269.
20. Carroll, Alice, 72.
21. Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Infinity, trans. Richard A. Cohen (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1985), 85.
22. Walter Benjamin, "On Language as Such and on the Language of Man," Selected Writings, vol. 1, 1913-1926, ed. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).
23. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1962), 396.
24. Jacques Derrida, "Un ver à soie," Contretemps 2/3 (1997), rpt. in Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida, Voiles (Paris: Galilée, 1998), 23-85;
25. "A Silkworm of One's Own," trans. Geoffrey Bennington, in Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida, Veils (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001), 17-92;
26. "Envois," in The Post Card, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 1-256;
27. "Che cos'è la poesia," trans. Peggy Kamuf, in A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds, ed. Peggy Kamuf (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 221-37;
28. "Fourmis," in Lectures de la différence sexuelle, ed. Anne Berger (Paris: Des Femmes, 1994), 69-102.
29. Derrida, "A Silkworm of One's Own," 88-89, 90.
30. Jacques Derrida, Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question, trans. Geoff Bennington and Rachel Bowlby (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 134.
31. Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 119.
32. See Jacques Derrida, Signsponge, trans. Richard Rand (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984), 10
33. Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles /É perons: Les Styles de Nietzsche, trans. Barbara Harlow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), 36/37.-Trans.
34. René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol. 1, trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 131.
35. Plato, "Phaedrus," trans. R. Hackforth, in The Collected Dialogues, ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), 521.
36. See Jacques Derrida, Speech and Phenomena, trans. David B. Allison (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1973).
37. Michel Haar, "Du symbolisme animal en général, et notamment du serpent," Alter 3 (1995), special issue on the animal.
38. my translation (cf. Guillaume Apollinaire, "La Chanson du mal-aimé," in Alcools, trans. Anne Hyde Greet [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965], 28/29).
39. Quoted in Alexandre Leupin, Barbarolexis: Medieval Writing and Sexuality (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), 149.
40. René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, trans. John Cottingham, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 18.
41. Adrien Baillet, Vie de M. Descartes (Paris, 1691), quoted in Geneviève Rodis-Lewis, "Introduction historique," in Meditationes de prima philosophia, xi (my translation-Trans.).
42. Martin Heidegger, "Letter on 'Humanism,' " trans. Frank A. Capuzzi, in Pathmarks, ed. William McNeill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 245-46.
43. Stéphane Mallarmé, Igitur, trans. Mary Ann Caws, in Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. Mary Ann Caws (New York: New Directions, 1982). Page references will be given in the text.
44. René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, trans. Robert Stoothoff, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 140-41.
45. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch, and Anthony Kenny, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol. 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 86.
46. Porphyry, On Abstinence from Killing Animals, trans. Gillian Clark (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000), 82-83.
47. In Florence Burgat, Animal, mon prochain (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1997), 56-59.
48. Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 66 (bk. 4.14).
49. Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, ed. and trans. Robert B. Louden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 15.
50. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. and ed. Mary Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 42-43.
51. Theodor W. Adorno, Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998), 80 (fragment 202).
52. Jacques Derrida, " 'Eating Well' or the Calculation of the Subject," trans. Peter Connor and Avital Ronell, in Derrida, Points . . .: Interviews, 1974-1994, ed. Elisabeth Weber (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995).
53. É lisabeth de Fontenay, "La raison du plus fort," in Plutarch, Trois traités pour les animaux (Paris: POL, 1992), 71, my translation.
54. A theme that I treat at length (notably chaps. 2 and 3 of "A Word of Welcome") in Jacques Derrida, Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Michael Naas and Pascale-Anne Brault (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999), esp. 45-70.
55. Emmanuel Levinas, "The Paradox of Morality: An Interview with Emmanuel Levinas," in The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other, ed. Robert Bernasconi and David Wood (London: Routledge, 1988), 171-72.
56. Quoted in John Llewelyn, The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience: A Chiasmatic Reading of Responsibility in the Neighborhood of Levinas, Heidegger and Others (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 65.
57. Levinas, "The Paradox of Morality," 172. Cf. Llewelyn, 64; my italics.
58. Emmanuel Levinas, "Peace and Proximity," in Levinas, Basic Philosophical Writings, ed. Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley, and Robert Bernasconi (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 168; quoted and discussed in Derrida, Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, 32ff.
59. Cf. Alain David, "Cynesthèse: Auto-portrait du chien," in L'animal autobiographique, ed. Marie-Louise Mallet (Paris: Galilée, 1999).
60. Emmanuel Levinas, "Nom d'un chien ou le droit naturel," in Celui qui ne peut se servir de mots (Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1975);
61. "The Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights," in Levinas, Difficult Freedom, trans. Sean Hand (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).
62. Jacques Lacan, "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious," in É crits: A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Norton, 1977), 305.
63. Jacques Lacan, "Position de l'inconscient," É crits (Paris: Seuil, 1966), 834. [The original French version ofÉ crits will henceforth be identified as "É crits (French)."]
64. Cf. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B (Biological Sciences), no. 845, February 3, 1939, vol. 126.-Trans.
65. Allow me to refer the reader to my Aporias, trans. Thomas Dutoit (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993), esp. 35-38 and 74-76.
66. Cf. "Le Facteur de la vérité," in Derrida, The Post Card, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
67. Lacan, "The Line and Light," in The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), 95. See also, esp., 75.
68. Martin Heidegger, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, trans. William McNeill and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 310. Further references will be given in the text.
69. Cf. Aristotelis Metaphysica, ed. W. Christ (Leipzig, 1886), A. 2, 983a 3f.
70. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1962), §6, 41-49.
71. Martin Heidegger, "On the Essence of Ground," trans. William McNeill, in Heidegger, Pathmarks, ed. William McNeill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 97-135.
72. Cf. Aristotelis Organon, ed. T. Waitz (Leipzig, 1844), vol. 1, Hermeneutica (de interpretatione), chap. 4, 17a 1.