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See Derrida, “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow),” trans. ” 17. Derrida, “L’Animal que donc je suis (a` suivre),” in L’Animal autobiographie, ed. MarieLouise Mallet (Paris, 1999), p. 286. Critical Inquiry / Winter 2007 you note this feature: man who comes after the animals, who are thus his elders, receives the order and the right to subjugate them. I skip with an infinite regret—for I would like to spend a lifetime with this text that shocks and overturns the old philosophico-humanist temple.

Inveterate tradition ever since the authors of the Bible began telling themselves their stories about men in Genesis (as you analyze it in your almost comic description of “the scene of name-calling” [“A,” p. 383]), a terrifying and cruel scene in which subjugations and slaveries fit together, a circus with animals in the arena, man as gladiator and tamer, and in the tiers a curious God like an emperor. Here is where 15. He´le`ne Cixous and Derrida, Veils, trans. , 2001), p. 90. 16. See Derrida, “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow),” trans.

The supernatural charm of the desired beings, which fades when one approaches them, but which, if it subsisted in present familiarity, would lend to this familiarity something still more supernatural than itself. The supernatural that is approached, handled, tasted, possessed, familiar. But this happens so rarely and perhaps never. So, to keep the supernatural alive, one must keep oneself from approaching it; one must hold the other, the thing, at a calculated distance, which doesn’t stop at elimination.

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