ABSTRACT
Jacque Derrida, the rigorous thinker that he is, is making a distinction between nudity as such and the concept or the category of "the nude" in philosophy. Also, is Derrida attempting here to make both a methodological as well as a polemical distinction between deconstructing language and divesting from language? At any rate, Derrida is paying undivided attention to the unfortunate reality that "language" has been monumentalized as that one phenomenon or capacity that forever divides the human from the animal. If this monumentalization has taken place in the field of philosophy, what is Derrida to do as a philosopher of language: abandon language, secede from philosophy? The philosopher feels the deconstructive imperative of wanting to surrender and subject himself to the gaze of the animal. Derrida attempts a neologism with the word l'animot to introduce an anomaly and a transgression in the French language.
