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1 online resource (280 pages) |
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Numanities--arts and humanities in progress ; v. 12 |
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Numanities--arts and humanities in progress ; v. 12.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Institutions of Life -- 2 Bio-poetics and the Dynamic Multiplicity of Bios: How Literature Challenges the Politics, Economics and Sciences of Life -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Bio-poetics and the Power of Life in Literature -- 2.2.1 Bio-poetics as a Challenge for the Economy, Economical Politics in Global Capitalism, and Violence -- 2.2.2 Aisthesis as Challenging Technique and Multiplicity -- 2.3 An Ontology of the Living -- References |
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3 Institution and Life as an Institution: Uterus: Mother's Body, Father's Right (Life and Norm) -- References -- 4 Towards a Poetics of Worldlessness: Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Human Action -- 4.1 For the Love of the World: The World Between Life and Thought -- 4.2 For the Love of Worldlessness: Good Works and the Limits of Action -- 4.3 Towards a Poetics of Worldlessness: The Sheer Bliss of Togetherness -- References -- Anthropology, Performativity, and Language -- 5 Man and Other Political Animals in Aristotle -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Man as Political Animal Endowed with Logos |
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5.2.1 Man as (More) politikon zōon -- 5.2.2 Man and Logos -- 5.3 Logos, Sumbolon, and Communication -- 5.3.1 Phōnē and Logos -- 5.3.2 The Conventionality of Sumbolon -- 5.4 Conclusions -- References -- 6 Is There an Essential Convergence Between Signification and Animals? On the Truth and Lying of Animal Names in a Nietzschean Sense -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Man, the Animal that Recognizes and Misjudges Itself -- 6.3 Conclusions -- References -- 7 Noble Promises: Performativity and Physiology in Nietzsche -- References -- 8 Austin's Animals -- References |
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9 Self-interpreting Language Animal: Charles Taylor's Anthropology -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Taylor and the Hermeneutic Tradition -- 9.3 Sources of the Self -- 9.4 The Linguistic Capacity of the Language Animal and the HHH-Tradition -- 9.5 Conclusion -- References -- Anthrozoology, Ethics, and Bio-Aesthetics -- 10 The Theriomorphic Face -- 10.1 The Face as an Anthropological Privilege -- 10.2 Giving a Face to Animals -- 10.3 Giving Faces the Beast -- 10.4 Wavering Allocations: Metamorphoses -- 10.5 Inversions: Mirror Scenes Between Animal and Human Being -- References |
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11 'Step by Step into Ever Greater Decadence': Discourses of Life and Metamorphic Anthropology -- References -- 12 Bio-Aesthetics: The Production of Life in Contemporary Art -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Semi-living Art -- 12.3 Hybrid Art -- 12.4 Cyborg Art -- 12.5 Eco Art -- 12.6 Post-evolutionary Art -- 12.7 Postanthropocentric Art -- 12.8 Artistic Motherhood -- 12.9 Conclusion -- References -- Biopoetics, Zoopoetics, Biophilology -- 13 Io's Writing: Human and Animal in the Prison-House of Fiction -- 13.1 Introduction: Ovid and Cortázar -- 13.2 Io and Her Prison -- 13.3 The Sound of Io's Voice |
| Summary |
This book offers innovative investigations of the concept of life in art and in theory. It features essays that explore biopoetics and look at how insights from the natural sciences shape research within the humanities. Since literature, works of art, and other cultural products decisively shape our ideas of what it means to be human, the contributors to this volume examine the question of what literature, literary and cultural criticism, and philosophy contribute to the distinctions (or non-distinctions) between human, animal, and vegetal existence. Coverage combines different methodological aspects and addresses a wide field of comparative literary studies. The essays consider the question of language (as a distinctive feature of human existence) in a number of different contexts, which range from Aristotles works, through several historical layers of the philosophical discourse on the origins of speech, to modern anthropology, and 20th century continental philosophy. In addition, the volume includes concrete case studies to the current post-humanism debate and provides literary, art historian, and philosophical perspectives on animal studies. The historical multiplicity of the various cultural representations of biological existence (be that human, animal, vegetal, or mixed) might serve as a productive foundation for discussing the nature and forms of literatures critical contributions to our understanding of these fundamental categories. This volume opens up this subject to students and scholars of literature, art, philosophy, ethics, and cultural studies, and to anyone with a theoretical interest in the questions of life |
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13.4 Io's Signature |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Linguistics -- Philosophy
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Language: history & general works.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Philosophy of language.
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Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General.
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Philosophy -- Reference.
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Linguistics -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kulcsár-Szabó, Zoltán, 1973-
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Lénárt, Tamás
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Simon, Attila, 1966-
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Végső, Roland
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| ISBN |
9783030337384 |
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3030337383 |
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