Balza, Isabel2024-12-172024-12-172019-08Balza, Isabel. 2019. «When the Grass Sings: Poetic Reason and Animal Writing». Environmental Values 28, no. 4: 471-488.1752-7015, 0963-2719https://doi.org/10.3197/096327119X15576762300712https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3197/096327119X15576762300712https://hdl.handle.net/10953/3530In 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.engAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Animal writingEthics of careMaría ZambranoPassivityPoetic reasoninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article17 Ética. Moral1 Filosofíainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess