Escrever a alteridade, inscrever o animal: entre Jacques Derrida e Clarice Lispector / Write the Otherness, Inscribe the Animal: Between Jacques Derrida and Clarice Lispector

European Memories: Jan Patočka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility

Derrida, Butler and an Education in Otherness

Crisis Between the Wars: Derrida and the Origins of Undecidability

T     deconstruction has so far resisted historicization. But perhaps the crucial factor has been the continuing presence of its main practitioner, Jacques Derrida, who refused, one might say, to become part of history. Right up to his death in October of 2004, Derrida wrote about some of the key issues facing the world today. So while deconstruction as a ‘‘theory’’ has lar...

Sexual Difference, Animal Difference: Derrida and Difference ‘‘Worthy of Its Name’’

I challenge the age-old binary opposition between human and animal, not as philosophers sometimes do by claiming that humans are also animals, or that animals are capable of suffering or intelligence, but rather by questioning the very category of ‘‘the animal’’ itself. This category groups a nearly infinite variety of living beings into one concept measured in terms of humans—animals are those...

Nordestina Modernity in the Novels of Freitas, Queiroz, and Lispector

In her article "Nordestina Modernity in the Novels of Freitas, Queiroz, and Lispector" Fernanda Patricia Fuentes Muñoz discusses aspects of the Nordeste — the northeastern region of Brazil — in Emília de Freitas's A Rainha do Ignoto (1899), Rachel de Queiroz's O Quinze (1930), and Clarice Lispector's A Hora da Estrela (1977; The Hour of the Star, 1992, Trans. Giovanni Pontiero). The region has ...