{"title":"Other Animals, Other Gardens: Animal Difference and Politics in Davidson, Derrida, and Badiou","authors":"B. Martin","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0020","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the question of \"animality\" and \"human difference\" as problems for politics and philosophy. If thought is the difference between human and non-human animals, and if, as Badiou argues, \"politics is a thought,\" does this mean that there is no \"political dimension\" to the human cohabitation of the earth with animals? Until we can conceive of a \"common polity\" among humans and other animals, there has to be a very careful consideration of strong borders that should not be crossed by humans.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"159 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0020","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay explores the question of "animality" and "human difference" as problems for politics and philosophy. If thought is the difference between human and non-human animals, and if, as Badiou argues, "politics is a thought," does this mean that there is no "political dimension" to the human cohabitation of the earth with animals? Until we can conceive of a "common polity" among humans and other animals, there has to be a very careful consideration of strong borders that should not be crossed by humans.