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He not only tells the story of this cultural change but also explores the promise and responsibilities that such a new understanding entails.\u003cbr\u003e The long-awaited English translation is a bold, bravura rendering. To the title essay are added five closely related recent pieces—including a commentary by Antonia Birnbaum—dedicated in large part to the legacy of the \"mind-body problem\" formulated by Descartes and the challenge it poses to rethinking the ancient problems of the corpus. The last and most poignant of these essays is \"The Intruder,\" Nancy's philosophical meditation on his heart transplant. 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Although the art, monasticism, and spirituality of Byzantium have come to be recognized as inspirational and influential in the shaping of Eastern European civilization, and of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as well, the West has been in the main ignorant of the historical evolution and the doctrinal significance of Byzantine theology.\u003cbr\u003e Here, for the first time in English, is presented a synthesis of Byzantine Christian thought. The reader is guided through its complexities to an understanding of Byzantium: its view of man and his destiny of \"deification\"; its ability to transcend the \"Western captivity\"; its survival under quite adverse historical circumstances. 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That starts with the very fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the millions of other species that are reduced to a single \"the animal.\" Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it, surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses to\u003cbr\u003e the question in the work of each of them.\u003cbr\u003e The book's autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derrida's experience when his cat follows him into the bathroom in the morning. In a classic deconstructive reversal, Derrida asks what this animal sees and thinks when it sees this naked man. 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