"On being 'The Last Kantian in Nazi Germany': Dwelling with Animals after Levinas" (reprinted in Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject, 2005).

In this, as in so many other ways, Levinas anticipates Derrida, for whom Heidegger’s extraordinary statement represents an object lesson in what he calls “the ideology of difference.�? In attempting to deconstruct this ideology, with its insistence upon “a single limit between white and black, Jewish and non-Jewish,�? animal and human, Derrida is not arguing that difference is irrele-No, no I am not advocating the blurring of differences. On …