The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II

by Jacques Derrida

Book Overview

Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002-2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses on two markedly different texts: Heidegger's 1929-1930 course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022647853X
• ISBN13: 9780226478531
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"