T 4/16 Derrida, Interview – “‘Eating Well’, or the Calculation of the Subject”

Topic: What becomes of the subject?

1. What does Derrida mean when he claims that no one has ever sought to liquidate the subject? Do you think he is correct?

2. If this is true of Derrida’s own view, how is his stance toward the subject neither a rejection nor an embracing of it?

3. Derrida argues that deconstruction gives us more responsibility, especially in relation to the animal (see 273). If Derrida is not recommending vegetarianism or animal rights, in what manner is he suggesting that we alter our relation to animals?