The stamp of rarity: ancestrality and extinction in Daniel Deronda
Autor
Jiménez Heffernan, Julián
Editor
University of California PressFecha
2018Materia
PatternsFigural transactions
Human groups
Animals
Human interactions
Moral
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There are patterns of continuité discontinu (Derrida) in the figural transactions between human groups and between humans and animals in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda that remain underexamined. By emphasizing ironic incommensurability and difference, this essay seeks to reveal the logic of ungivenness organizing human interactions in a novel haunted by images of deep time and species extermination. Eliot’s interest in ancestrality and extinction was fueled by her readings in geology and biology (Darwin), but it also evinces a metaphysical concern with uncorrelated time (Kant) that is inseparable from her fascination with the idea of moral rarity.