Thesis (M. Min.)--Cincinnati Bible College & Seminary, 2002. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-114).

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Derrida Animal Ethics, is a study of “the animal question" in the works of French Philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and his relevance for the newly emerging and diverse field of Critical Animal Studies (CAS), Religious Studies, and the Social Sciences and Humanities more generally. Drawing on Derrida’s longstanding engagement with human-animal relations, in such texts as The Animal That Therefore I Am, “Violence Against Animals,” and his final seminars The Beast and the Sovereign, this thesis centers on his analyses of sovereignty, singularity, death, and responsibility, treating each of these concepts in a thesis chapter, and examining the potential of each for a rethinking of “animality” in discourses on ethics and human-animal relations.

Thesis (doctoral)--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, 2005. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-242) and indexes.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, Discipline of Gender, Work and Social Inquiry, 2007. / "December 2006" Bibliography: leaves [183-203]. Also available in print form.

Thesis (PhD) -- AUT University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (xxii, 344 leaves ; 30 cm.) in the Archive at the City Campus (T 305.42 OCO)

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1996. / Typescript. Bibliography: leaf 19.

Thesis (doctoral) - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-242) and indexes.

Thesis (M. Min.)--Cincinnati Bible College & Seminary, 2002. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-114).

This study concerns a contemporary articulation of the age-old limit/possibility (truth/scepticism) contest in Western metaphysics. Traditional `either/or' logic advises that scepticism is a necessary consequence of the assailability of truth; hence the concerted effort in the history of philosophy to preserve the possibility of truth against any flicker of uncertainty. Here, it is argued that contemporary thinking sees the possibility of `absolute' truth lose its ground. However, a concomitant shift to a `logos of difference' averts the consequence of scepticism. Thus, the justification for this study could be articulated in terms of the imperative, if a cardinal moment in contemporary thought is to be sustained, to understand this shift in logos, work through its implications and learn to live with its effects. In this respect, an attempt is made throughout to situate and interpret Derrida's `deconstructive thinking' as exemplar. Derrida's thinking finds roots (not without signs of insurrection) in Kant's `Copernican revolution,' construed as the first shift towards the contemporary logos in question. Here, Kant refuted the postulate of an independent `world' by demonstrating that `reality' was the result of a cognitive order imposed on what `exists' by the rational subject. Knowledge, therefore, depended not on matching statements with pre-existing `things,' but on knowing the `rules' that determined how an object had to be if it was to be known at all. Kant maintained that certain, objective knowledge was possible, due to the completeness and universality of the forms of intuition and the categories of the understanding. Kant's `Copernican revolution' provided the opening for a second shift inaugurated by the so- called `linguistic turn.' Here, thinkers contested what Kant took for granted; namely that `constitutive interpretations' (cognitions/concepts) formed a `reality' independently of language. The basic premise underpinning the `linguistic turn,' therefore, is that language (signification) and `reality' are inseparable. Henceforth, the possibility of final, enduring `constitutive interpretations' whose `truth,' in principle, is discoverable, depends on whether or not the language which mediates human rationality can form a complete and universal system. This question resurrects the very limit/possibility debate (in the form of a structuralism/postmodernism stand-off) that Kant thought he had resolved in mediating between rationalist and empiricist extremes. In contemporary terms, philosophers who, bound by either/or logic, wish to avoid the sceptical trap of `anything goes' postmodernism, must assume that language (signification) can form a complete and universal system. However, in his deconstructive readings of Husserl, Saussure and `structuralism,' Derrida demonstrates the untenability of this assumption. At the same time, he shows that the sceptical `alternative' may be avoided by recognising the limitations of `either/or' logic. Again, Derrida's thinking may be traced to Kant's; this time to his analysis of the `first antinomy.' In accordance with Kant's analysis here of what is ultimately the logic of `complex systems' (Cilliers), Derrida offers a `logos of difference,' which skirts the strictures of structuralism while avoiding the trap of postmodern scepticism by accommodating both moments of limit and possibility in an indissoluble interplay.