The Therioanthropic Being as Our Neighbour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3775101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberto Marchesini (0009-0001-4223-0555, c/o Apeiron Editoria e Comunicazione/Golfetto, Via Vinicio Pescerelli 78 (primo piano), 40018 San Pietro in Casale, Bologna, ItalyE-mail) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 201-214 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2016.1163847 |
| OpenAlex | W4231609382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This chapter bears on the concepts of the animal epiphany and therioanthropy. The concrete, real animals in interaction interrupt humanism and human solipsism by showing animal protagonism in the world and by reflecting narcissistic human images back to them with a difference. This looking-glass-self or mirror with difference and continuity is a crucial dimension to the human relationship to nonhuman animals, which cannot be thought without an understanding of this co-belonging. Drawing on Portmann, who is also central to Merleau-Ponty’s account of interanimality and Derrida’s concerns about animals and visuality, therioanthropy considers the particular dimensions of this “being-to-be-seen” and what it means for human–animal interactions. It links to animal subjectivity, an open reading of the Umwelt (as opposed to a closed one that blocks exchange), and to the concept of animal epiphany (where human observation of other animals leads to extension of human capabilities
Aesthetics · Biology · Epiphany · Epistemology · Extension (predicate logic · Human animal · Humanism · Humanity · Non-human · Sociology · Subjectivity · Theology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Communication · Ecology · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |