Ickapoo desires meaning. Between the Beast and the Sovereign, choose the Sovereign to escape damnation.
In this second volume of the Beast and the Sovereign, Derrida continues his deconstruction of the division between man and animal. Positing that Heidegger's distinction between an animal which is poor in world as opposed to a human who is world-configuring, Derrida argues that we essentially share the same world and hence are unable to determine if animals are impoverished in their experience of the world. Derrida goes on to compare two seemingly disparate authors, Heidegger and Defoe. Arguing that these two authors meditate on solitude yet take disparate approaches, to Derrida these differences are superficial and merely surface differences, for both share the same metaphysical and ont
