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Article Excerpt
Has anyone written a book on philosophy's bees? It was Jacques Derrida who, on several occasions, called attention to the long tradition "on the philosophical topos of the bee" that prevails in the West, from Aristotle through Schelling, Marx, Heidegger, and Lacan, a tradition of thinking "the sense and senses of the bee, and the bee's reason for being" (131)--always in the interests of setting apart, in binary fashion, the being of the bee from the being of man. Thus, as Heidegger has it in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, the bee, "without...
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