Overview
- Argues for the importance of the creaturely in navigating the ethical complexities of the Anthropocene
- Explores creatural presences across disciplines, including historiography, ethnography, philosophical argument, film, and visual arts
- Unites international perspectives from up-and-coming to established scholars
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world. The text explores written work such as Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, video media such as the film "Creature Comforts" and the video game Into the Dead, and photography. With chapters written by an international group of philosophers, literary and cultural studies scholars, historians and others, the volume brings together established experts and forward-thinking early career scholars to provide an interdisciplinary engagement with ways of thinking and writing the creaturely to establish a postanthropocentric sense of human-animal relationality.
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Keywords
- animals ins Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho
- Animals in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K
- animals and metaphorization
- materialism versus semiotics
- Zoopoetics
- Luigi Pirandello’s Si gira!
- Nick Park’s “Creature Comforts”
- interspecies communication
- Perrudja by Hans Henny Jahnn
- “apotheosis of the creature.”
- creatural lives in the interwar period
- human-animal relationships in the anthropocene
- postanthropocentrism
- earth-based ethics
- Heidegger’s poiesis
- Derrida’s poetic as if
- biosociality
- Michel Foucault and animals
- video games and prey perspective
- dogs and human identity
Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Animating Creaturely Life: Ontology and Ethics Beyond Anthropocentrism
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Storying Creaturely Life: Writing/Reading Animality and Human–Animal Relations
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Afterword
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dominik Ohrem is Lecturer in the Anglo-American Department of the School of History at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Roman Bartosch is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond the Human-Animal Divide
Book Subtitle: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture
Editors: Dominik Ohrem, Roman Bartosch
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-93437-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60309-8Published: 21 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-93437-9Published: 21 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 325
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, European Literature, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory