The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)
By J. Derrida, David Wills. Critical Inquiry, 2002
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To begin with, I would like to entrust myself to words that, were it possible, would be naked. Naked in the first place-but this is in order to announce already that I plan to speak endlessly of nudity and of the nude in philosophy. Starting from Genesis. I would like to choose words that are, to begin with, naked, quite simply, words from the heart. And to utter these words without repeating myself, without beginning again what I have already said here, more than once. It is said that one must avoid repeating oneself, in order not to give the appearance of
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy
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