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Konturen: Vol 6 (2014)
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Defining the Human and the Animal
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(University of Oregon, 2014)My aim in this essay is to explore certain parallels—concerning anthropomorphism—in the work of Roger Caillois, Hans Jonas, Theodor Adorno and Sigmund Freud. Both Caillois (a thinker closely connected to French Surrealism ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)In their pathbreaking discussions of the human family tree in the 1860s and 1870s, Ernst Haeckel and Charles Darwin had to account for both the ascent of the species and its diversification into races. But what was the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)Within the context of an inquiry into the borders between human and animal, this essay considers the question of the humanity - or animality - of children as they are depicted in nineteenth-century German literature and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)Texts of the early Twentieth Century link animalism, gender struggles, and issues of identity in their stark critique of bourgeois gender ideology. This essay places selected texts by Bertolt Brecht and Frank Wedekind in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf (1927) can be regarded as a post-humanist novel for several reasons. It is post-humanist in a temporal sense because it engages with the nineteenth-century humanist legacy from a twentieth-century ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)Phenomenology’s attention to the theme of animality has focused not on animal life in general but rather on the animal dimension of the human and its contested relation with humanity as such. Phenomenology thereby reproduces ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)In order to respond to the problem addressed by this volume, I must reformulate its title, “Defining the Human and Animal”, by replacing the conjunctive 'and' with 'as'. Because this essay is based on the not too far-fetched ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)Kant is often criticized for his strict separation of humans and animals as categorically distinct entities. This separation hinges on the fact that, for Kant, humans are rational, while non-human animals are wholly ...