When the Grass Sings: Poetic Reason and Animal Writing
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2019-08
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White Horse Press
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In this article I shall propose María Zambrano’s poetic reason as a suitable method for developing a knowledge of animal being. To do so, I will follow the analyses (Derrida, Coetzee) that place animal thinking in the poetic sphere, thus showing the need for a poetic/literary knowledge to make a philosophical knowledge of the animal possible. Animal writing expresses our nature in relation to animal nature; it discloses our animal interbeingness. Finally, I will point to some of the principles of ecofeminist/animal ethics, like care and empathy, which arise both in what I propose to call animal writing and in Zambranian poetic reason.
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animal writing, ethics of care, María Zambrano, passivity, poetic reason
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Balza, Isabel. 2019. «When the Grass Sings: Poetic Reason and Animal Writing». Environmental Values 28, no. 4: 471-488.