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Creaturely Love : How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human /

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,...

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Autor principal: Pettman, Dominic (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • On the stupidity of oysters
  • Divining creaturely love
  • Horsing around: the marriage blanc of Nietzsche, Andreas-Salomo, and Roe
  • Groping for an opening: Rilke between animal and angel
  • Electric caresses:Rilke, Balthus, and Mitsou
  • Between perfection and temptation: Musil, Claudine, and Veronica
  • The biological travesty
  • "The creature whom we love": Proust and jealousy
  • The love tone: capture and captivation
  • "The soft word that comes deceiving": Fournival's bestiary of love
  • The cuckold and the cockatrice: Fourier and Hazlitt
  • The animal bride and horny toads
  • Unsettled being: Ovid's metamorphoses
  • Fickle metaphysics
  • Nymphomania and faunication
  • Senseless arabesques: Wendy and Lucy
  • The goat in the machine (a reprise)
  • On cetaceous maidens
  • Animal magnetism and alternative currents (or Tesla and the white dove).