Creaturely Poetics

Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film

Autor: Anat Pick

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Editura: Columbia University Press

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Simone Weil once wrote that "the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability...

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Autor

Anat Pick

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2011

Pagini

264

EAN

9780231147866

ISBN

0231147864

Enbook ID

04558729

Editura

Columbia University Press

Greutate

1444

Dimensiuni

143 x 218 x 18

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Simone Weil once wrote that "the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence," establishing a relationship between vulnerability, beauty, and existence transcending the separation of species. Her conception of a radical ethics and aesthetics could be characterized as a new poetics of species, forcing a rethinking of the body's significance, both human and animal. Exploring the "logic of flesh" and the use of the body to mark species identity, Anat Pick reimagines a poetics that begins with the vulnerability of bodies, not the omnipotence of thought. Pick proposes a "creaturely" approach based on the shared embodiedness of humans and animals and a postsecular perspective on human-animal relations. She turns to literature, film, and other cultural texts, challenging the familiar inventory of the human: consciousness, language, morality, and dignity. Reintroducing Weil's elaboration of such themes as witnessing, commemoration, and collective memory, Pick identifies the animal within all humans, emphasizing the corporeal and its issues of power and freedom. In her poetics of the creaturely, powerlessness is the point at which aesthetic and ethical thinking must begin.

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