The Savage | Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human | Edinburgh Scholarship Online (2024)

The Savage | Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human | Edinburgh Scholarship Online (1) Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human

Judith Still

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2015

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9781474412469

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9780748680979

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Still, Judith, 'The Savage', Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human (Edinburgh, 2015; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 21 Sept. 2017), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748680979.003.0004, accessed 30 June 2024.

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This chapter takes up Derrida’s analysis of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe in The Beast and the Sovereign volume 2, and sets the figure of the savage in the context of eighteenth-century philosophical and proto-ethnographic writing about the New World including Buffon, Jefferson, Maubert de Gouvest and the Encyclopédie. La Fontaine again emerges as an intertext with a fable featuring beavers which highlights the key question whether or not perfectibility divides man from the animal. Other properties that are relevant in this context are choice of diet (in particular cannibalism), bodily adornment (nudity as opposed to clothes, hairiness or hairlessness), living in solitude or in communities, language, sovereignty and naming. The savage is represented on the frontier between the human and the animal – sometimes falling on one side and sometimes on the other.

Keywords: Enlightenment, America, Defoe, indigenous peoples

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Moral Philosophy

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