Anat Pick:Kreaturpoetik: Tierwesen und Verletzlichkeit in Literatur und Film von Anat P
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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Creaturely Poetics by Anat Pick 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. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description 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. Notes "Even more than Anat Pick's preparation and energetic writing, the quality of thought conveyed in this book may be its most significant feature. Here is an original thesis, built from, around, with, and against existing work in related (and unrelated) areas, timely and singular, which contributes to several fields and disciplines at once. The 'creaturely poetics' invoked by the author work through problems in philosophy, critical theory, film criticism, and literary studies; they address historical questions such as the Holocaust, theoretical/ethical concerns including 'speciesism,' and formal and aesthetic concerns related to a variety of modes and genres in film and literature. Very few scholars can do what Pick has achieved: blending credible film analysis and criticism with animal studies and critical thought." -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, USC School of Cinematic Arts Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Creaturely Bodies Part 1The Inhumanity of Literature 1. Humanity Unraveled, Humanity Regained: The Holocaust and the Discourse of Species 2. Neanderthal Poetics in William Golding's The Inheritors 3. The Indignities of Species in Marie Darrieussecq's Pig Tales Part 2The Inhumanity of Film 4. Cine-Zoos 5. Scientific Surrealism in the Films of Georges Franju and Frederick Wiseman 6. Werner Herzog's Creaturely Poetics Conclusion: Animal Saintliness Notes Works Cited Index Review Animals and the Human Imagination soars. Intellectually exciting, smart, and accessible, this volume will intrigue and revolt, surprise and inspire. The opening overview by Gross is a tour de force and each essay fascinates. Collectively they offer an invitation to think in new ways about what we, perhaps wrongly, call our humanity. I can't imagine a better introduction to the essential new field of critical animal studies. -- Jonathan Safran Foer [A] lively, fascinating, moving book. -- Scott Cowdell Journal of Animal Ethics This is a beautiful, profound, and important book that works through and around long-held and cherished assumptions, both within and without animal studies. -- Lindgren Johnson Journal for Critical Animal Studies Promotional "Even more than Anat Pick's preparation and energetic writing, the quality of thought conveyed in this book may be its most significant feature. Here is an original thesis, built from, around, with, and against existing work in related (and unrelated) areas, timely and singular, which contributes to several fields and disciplines at once. The 'creaturely poetics' invoked by the author work through problems in philosophy, critical theory, film criticism, and literary studies; they address historical questions such as the Holocaust, theoretical/ethical concerns including 'speciesism,' and formal and aesthetic concerns related to a variety of modes and genres in film and literature. Very few scholars can do what Pick has achieved: blending credible film analysis and criticism with animal studies and critical thought." -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, USC School of Cinematic Arts Review Quote This is a beautiful, profound, and important book that works through and around long-held and cherished assumptions, both within and without animal studies. Details ISBN0231147864 Author Anat Pick Year 2011 ISBN-10 0231147864 ISBN-13 9780231147866 Format Hardcover Short Title CREATURELY POETICS Language English Media Book Imprint Columbia University Press Subtitle Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Pages 264 Publisher Columbia University Press Illustrations black & white illustrations Affiliation Queen Mary, University of London Translated from English Publication Date 2011-04-07 UK Release Date 2011-04-07 AU Release Date 2011-04-07 NZ Release Date 2011-04-07 US Release Date 2011-04-07 DEWEY 809.93362 Audience General We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICYNo questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERYNo matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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