While speaking at a conference on the “autobiographical animal,” this thinker described feeling shame upon being perceived by his cat while naked. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this thinker who criticized the human-animal distinction in a ten-hour lecture posthumously published as The Animal That Therefore I Am.
ANSWER: Jacques Derrida [or Jackie Élie Derrida]
[10e] Derrida explored Heidegger’s notion that humans have this mode of being and animals don’t, since humans have the ability to choose death. Heidegger derived this term from the German words for “there” and “being.”
ANSWER: Dasein
[10m] This philosopher explored the animal question in her account of her childhood dog Fips, who made her become “more human.” This thinker declared “woman must write her self” in an essay that coined the phrase écriture féminine.
ANSWER: Hélène Cixous (“ay-LEN sik-SOO”) (The essay is “The Laugh of the Medusa.”)
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