Būti / sekti gyvūnu: išnirusio laiko ontologija
Being / following the animal: The ontology of the disjointed time

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the ideas of nakedness, autobiography, asymmetrical gaze, and being after, developed in Jacques Derrida’s The Animal That Therefore I Am, by reading them in the context of Derrida’s Specters of Marx where the thinker offers his interpretation of the metaphor of the disjointed time. By interpreting animal– human relationship as being-late-to-be and as a postponement of the understanding of such a being, it is demonstrated that Derrida’s discourse on the question of animal is insufficient for engaging one in practical action (since it remains within the dualist paradigm of thought), yet can be viewed as grounding the possibility of a different way of thinking (since it constitutes a radical rupture between the members of the dualist system).

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