The exception Derrida — the “secret elect” of animals. The anthropo-onto-theo-logical vein in question
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https://doi.org/10.14195/0872-0851_64_6Keywords:
animal, carno‑phallogocentrism, compassion, cruelty, ecology, sacrifical traditionAbstract
«The exception Derrida – the “secret elected” of animals» intends above all to highlight three fundamental interconnected questions: 1.) Without reifying it in a theoretical‑systematic philosophy, to highlight Derrida’s Deconstruction as a “philosophical idiom” – that of différance or of the ab‑solute otherness – endowed, therefore, with specific “theoretical” assumptions (khôra, messianic); 2.) To highlight and to clarify the meaning of the “Derridian exception” concerning the issue of the animal and animality within the context of the sacrificial philosophical‑cultural Westernness; 3.) To highlight the relevance of the issue of the animal in order to re‑think, in new terms, the question of the human/subject itself – still essentially structured in the light of a metaphysical subjectivity –, underlining the invaluable contribution of Deconstruction to rethink the exceptionality of the human among the living beings and to bring the war for compassion to a successful end, thus contributing to the emergence of new Lights for the promise of the “coming” [«à‑venir»] of another humanity and, consequently, of another civilization.
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