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| Thursday, November 27, 2008 1:36PM | | | | Monsieur Grat and Descartes | Tags: Monsieur Grat, Descartes, animal souls, Agrippa, Monsieur
| | | The philosopher Descartes had a dog, which he treated as a friend and which became his inseparable companion. The name he gave the dog was "Monsieur Grat." The salutation in the name not only humanizes the animal, but also recalls the dog of the Cornelius Agrippa, who was at the time considered the most notorious practitioner of the black arts. The dog of Agrippa was simply called "Monsieur," and it accompanied Agrippa everywhere, sharing even his meals and his bed. At the death of Agrippa in Grenoble in about 1535, Monsieur allegedly had jumped into the Rhone river and disappeared completely.
Since Monsieur Grat shared the solitude of Descartes, I am wondering if the dog might in some way have... | | | | | | | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:24AM | | | | H-NILAS Review, Derrida's "Animal" | Tags: Derrida, the Animal, Lucian Boia, Roberto Marchesini, Descartes
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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... | | | | | |
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