{"title":"Everything Decomposes: Survivance Beyond the Human-Animal","authors":"Abigail Culpepper","doi":"10.3366/drt.2024.0323","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The notion of survivance is central to Derrida’s later thinking. Much of that thinking, for example in addressing the non–human in The Animal That Therefore I Am and The Beast and the Sovereign, is more precisely a thinking of the human in relation to the animal. Taking inspiration from the recent turn towards biodeconstruction, this essay works through the implications of survivance beyond the human-animal by considering the synergy between biological and textual survivance. And in so doing, this essay outlines a new way of conceptualizing the living self as a composite form made up of many non-human and even textual others.","PeriodicalId":42836,"journal":{"name":"Derrida Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Derrida Today","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3366/drt.2024.0323","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"PHILOSOPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The notion of survivance is central to Derrida’s later thinking. Much of that thinking, for example in addressing the non–human in The Animal That Therefore I Am and The Beast and the Sovereign, is more precisely a thinking of the human in relation to the animal. Taking inspiration from the recent turn towards biodeconstruction, this essay works through the implications of survivance beyond the human-animal by considering the synergy between biological and textual survivance. And in so doing, this essay outlines a new way of conceptualizing the living self as a composite form made up of many non-human and even textual others.
生存的概念是德里达后期思想的核心。其中的许多思考,例如在《动物故我在》(The Animal That Therefore I Am)和《野兽与君主》(The Beast and the Sovereign)中对非人类的探讨,更确切地说,是对人与动物关系的思考。本文从最近的生物解构转向中得到启发,通过考虑生物生存与文本生存之间的协同作用,探讨了超越人与动物的生存意义。在这样做的过程中,本文勾勒出一种新的方式,将活生生的自我概念化为一种由许多非人类甚至文本他者组成的复合形式。