Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film
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Book Overview Simone Weil once wrote that "the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence," establishin...
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.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 249 | Language: English | Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR | ISBN: 0231147864
FormatHardcover
Pages249
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0231147864
EAN9780231147866
PublisherCOLUMBIA UNIV PR
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight0.79 Pounds
Length8.1 Inches
Width5.6 Inches
Height0.7 Inches
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