Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film - Couverture rigide

Pick, Anat

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231147864 ISBN 13 : 9780231147866

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anat Pick is senior lecturer in film and program leader for film and video: theory and practice at the University of East London. She has published on Henry James and Emmanuel Levinas, Giorgio Agamben, Friedrich Nietzsche, Simone Weil, posthumanist theory, and independent film.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231147864
• ISBN 13: 9780231147866
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 249
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