The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality - Couverture souple

Randall, Catharine

 
9780268040352: The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0268040354 ISBN 13 : 9780268040352
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2014

Synopsis

Throughout Western civilization, animals have decorated heraldic shields, populated medieval manuscripts, and ornamented baroque pottery. Animals have also been our companions, our correctives, and our ciphers as humanity has represented and addressed issues of authority, cultural strife, and self-awareness as theological, moral, and social beings. In The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality, Catharine Randall traces two threads of thought that consistently appear in a number of early modern French texts: how animals are used as a means for humans to explore themselves and the meaning of existence; and how animals can be subjects in their own right.

In her accessible, interdisciplinary study, Randall explores the link between philosophical and theological discussions of the nature and status of animals vis-à-vis the rest of existence, particularly humans. In doing so, she provides the early modern backdrop for the more frequently studied modern and postmodern notions of animality. Randall approaches her themes by way of French confessional and devotional literature, especially the works of Michel de Montaigne, Guillaume Salluste Du Bartas, St. François de Sales, and Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant. From these, she elicits contrasting perspectives of animality: rational vs. mystical, representational vs. sacramental, religious vs. secular, and Protestant vs. Jesuit Catholic perspectives.

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À propos de l'auteur

Catharine Randall is senior lecturer in religion at Dartmouth College. She is the author of a number of books, including Black Robes and Buckskin: A Selection from the "Jesuit Relations" and From a Far Country: Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268040354
ISBN 13 
9780268040352
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
178
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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