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Creaturely Love

How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human

by Dominic Pettman

  • Paperback
  • 200 pages
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • 13.8 x 21.4 x 1.6 cm

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To our modern ears the word -creature- has wild, musky, even monstrous, connotations. And yet the terms -creaturely- and -love, - taken together, have traditionally been associated with theological debates around the enigmatic affection between God and His key creation, Man. In Creaturely Love, Dominic Pettman explores the ways in which desire makes us both more, and less, human. In an eminently approachable work of wide cultural reach and meticulous scholarship, Pettman undertakes an unprecedented examination of how animals shape the understanding and expression of love between people. Focusing on key figures in modern philosophy, art, and literature (Nietzsche, Salome, Rilke, Balthus, Musil, Proust), premodern texts and fairy tales (Fourier, Fournival, Ovid), and contemporary films and online phenomena (Wendy and Lucy, Her, memes), Pettman demonstrates that from pet names to spirit animals, and allegories to analogies, animals have constantly appeared in our writings and thoughts about passionate desire.By following certain charismatic animals during their passage through the love letters of philosophers, the romances of novelists, the conceits of fables, the epiphanies of poets, the paradoxes of contemporary films, and the digital menageries of the Internet, Creaturely Love ultimately argues that in our utilization of the animal in our amorous expression, we are acknowledging that what we adore in our beloveds is not (only) their humanity, but their creatureliness.
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  • Author

    Dominic Pettman

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    University of Minnesota Press

  • Published

    April 2017

  • Weight

    220g

  • Page Count

    200

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 21.4 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781517901219

  • ISBN-10

    1517901219

  • Eden Code

    4644799

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