Our Natural and Original Illness”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8910476 |
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| Authors | James Ramsey Wallen (0000-0003-2962-5779, University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 449-478 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Literature Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4132 • E-ISSN: 1528-4212 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/complitstudies.52.3.0449 |
| OpenAlex | W1826657470 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article examines a certain subterranean counter-conception of the human/animal distinction that occasionally surfaces in the Western literary-philosophical tradition. Focusing on Michel de Montaigne and Friedrich Nietzsche (particularly Apologie de Raimond Sebond and Zur Genealogie der Moral), I demonstrate how each writer's assault on the human/animal distinction relies on a sophisticated revaluation of the canonical humanist position of Pico della Mirandola, a position that each thinker (to some extent) can be said to reposit under a negative valence
Art · Epistemology · Humanism · Literature · Natural (archaeology · Theology · History · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Highly cited | No |
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