Donald Wehrs
Biographic Data
| ID | 9237012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Wehrs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Wehrs |
| SIGNATURE | WEHRS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Interlocutors, Nonhuman Actors, and the Ethics of Literary Signification
Associating autonomy with art has long been viewed with suspicion, but autonomous signifying agency may be attributed to literary discourse without lapsing into decontextualized aestheticism or neoliberal conceptions of subjectivity. Through literary practices that “move” readers in a “singular” manner, a work becomes what Rita Felski, following Bruno Latour, calls a “nonhuman actor.” Such an actor, Felski observes, “modifies a state of affairs b…
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Interlocutors, Nonhuman Actors, and the Ethics of Literary Signification
Associating autonomy with art has long been viewed with suspicion, but autonomous signifying agency may be attributed to literary discourse without lapsing into decontextualized aestheticism or neoliberal conceptions of subjectivity. Through literary practices that “move” readers in a “singular” manner, a work becomes what Rita Felski, following Bruno Latour, calls a “nonhuman actor.” Such an actor, Felski observes, “modifies a state of affairs b…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work) · Digital Media and Philosophy (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (1 work)