Abstract

Before explaining what we understand by the philosophy of touching in the thought of Jacques Derrida, it is perhaps necessary to say that Derrida's thought presents at its core one of the last great philosophies of the animal, namely, of non‐human life. Our thesis is that there can be no question that Derridean deconstruction is a philosophy that concerns the animal, that is, it is a thought that not only reflects on the animal, but which more originally is reflected in it. the pharmacological reading of life is what defines the singularity of Derrida's philosophy of the animal, the consequences of which are considerable for taking the interests of animals into account. By interiorization, as a process that is carried out by touch, one must also hear the fact that for the animal touch becomes a self‐touching: touching is firstly a being touched by oneself.