Jacques Derrida. The Animal that Therefore I Am. Edited by Marie-Louise Mallet and translated by David Wills. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. xiii + 176 pp. Notes. $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-2791-4.

Reviewed for H-NILAS by Boria Sax, Liberal Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield

                                           Do you Believe in the Animal?

Theorists constantly remind us that words like "nature," "God," "civilization," or "consciousness," except in the most restrictive contexts, have nothing close to the sort of precision that we usually expect from academic work, and it is very easy to dismiss them as incoherent or even meaningless. But, to the immense frustration of many positivists, analytic philosophers, and...