Swagata Singha Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 7499982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swagata Singha Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swagata Singha |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY S S |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2179-9849 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Interrogating the “Animal”
Humanity defines itself through an animal other, the animal in Jacques Derrida’s definition of “absolute alterity,” cannot return the human gaze. In this paper, I explore the possibilities of accommodation and hospitality which posthuman philosophy provides in conceptualizing the position of alterity of the “animal”. Building on the writing of Jacque Derrida and Giorgio Agamben I will argue how Posthumanism can radicalize the way in which the ant…
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Interrogating the “Animal”
Humanity defines itself through an animal other, the animal in Jacques Derrida’s definition of “absolute alterity,” cannot return the human gaze. In this paper, I explore the possibilities of accommodation and hospitality which posthuman philosophy provides in conceptualizing the position of alterity of the “animal”. Building on the writing of Jacque Derrida and Giorgio Agamben I will argue how Posthumanism can radicalize the way in which the ant…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Alterity (1 work) · Animal ethics (1 work) · Anthropocentrism (1 work) · Ecology (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 work) · Human animal (1 work) · Humanism (1 work)