Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 416 g
Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 416 g
Reihe: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
ISBN: 978-3-030-10036-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987). Relatively unexamined by scholars, the complex and extensive animal imagery Levi employed in his literary works offers new insights into the aesthetical and ethical function of testimony, as well as an original perspective on contemporary debates surrounding human-animal relationships and posthumanism.
The three main sections that compose the book mirror Levi’s approach to non-human animals and animality: from an unquestionable bio-ethical origin (“Suffering”); through an investigation of the relationships between writing, technology, and animality (“Techne”); to a creative intellectual project in which literary animals both counterbalance the inevitable suffering of all creatures, and suggest a transformative image of interspecific community (“Creation”).Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin: Ethik und Recht
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Introduction. Primo Levi and the Question of the Animal.- 2. Suffering I. Shared Vulnerability.- 3. Suffering II. Muteness and Testimony.- 4. Techne I. Animal Hands.- 5. Techne II. Hybrids and Hubris.- 6. Creation I. A New Writing.- 7. Creation II. Re-Enchantment.- 8. Conclusion. Animal Testimony.- Index.