Abstract

FISGATIVA, Carlos Mario. Derrida and the Undecidable Zoography. About the Animals saying “I”. Prax. filos. [online]. 2023, n.56, pp.159-180.  Epub Apr 20, 2023. ISSN 0120-4688.  https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i56.12156.

We explore the debate proposed by Jacques Derrida concerning the delimitations between the human and the non-human, to question the anthropocentric exceptionalism and the subject figure that works as its correlate and is defined by the possibility of self-positing against the non-human and the animal. It is shown that in Derrida’s philosophy, animality and writing display figures of radical alterity problematizing the boundaries defining the human and the characteristics that are indicated as the proper and essential of "Man". Since, being governed by the undecidable, writing is a mediation that contaminates with its reiteration and exteriority. This is possible thanks to the fact that the dynamics of writing as a trace refers beyond the human and the living, towards the technical and artifactual. This allows us to engage in the debate of Posthumanisms, to confront two positions that deny Derridian philosophy achieves a radical critique of Humanism and the figures of subjectivity that it implies.

Keywords : Autobiography; Animality; Derrida; Undecidability; Zoography.

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