Overview
In an eminentlyapproachable work of wide cultural reach and meticulous scholarship, DominicPettman undertakes an unprecedented examination of how animals shape theunderstanding and expression of love between people. He argues that in ourutilization of the animal in our amorous expression, we acknowledge that whatwe adore in our beloveds is not (only) their humanity, but theircreatureliness.
Full Product Details
Author: Dominic Pettman
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Volume: 42
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9781517901202
ISBN 10: 1517901200
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 18 April 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Pettman has written yet another absorbing, witty, moving, and smart book about the question of human exceptionalism, this time in relation to desire and love, attending especially to literary and artistic works. The book makes a significant contribution particularly to a revisionist reading of modernist literary/artistic history with relation to the presence of the nonhuman animal, or the creaturely.-Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz Dominic Pettman writes thoughtful, light-fingered books on significant questions that are simultaneously timely and timeless. In Creaturely Love, he takes up the perennial awkwardness that haunts every effort to etherealize romance: the proximity of our loving bodies to the critter-creatures that rut and tread and mount and cover each other just outside our windows. Drawing on the newest (and some of the oldest) thinking about humans and animals, Pettman here recalls us to ourselves-by ruminating on just how hard it is to say what exactly that might mean. -D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University
Pettman has written yet another absorbing, witty, moving, and smart book about the question of human exceptionalism, this time in relation to desire and love, attending especially to literary and artistic works. The book makes a significant contribution particularly to a revisionist reading of modernist literary/artistic history with relation to the presence of the nonhuman animal, or the creaturely. --Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz</p> Dominic Pettman writes thoughtful, light-fingered books on significant questions that are simultaneously timely and timeless. In <i>Creaturely Love</i>, he takes up the perennial awkwardness that haunts every effort to etherealize romance: the proximity of our loving bodies to the critter-creatures that rut and tread and mount and cover each other just outside our windows. Drawing on the newest (and some of the oldest) thinking about humans and animals, Pettman here recalls us to ourselves--by ruminating on just how hard it is to say what exactly that might mean. --D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University</p>
-Pettman has written yet another absorbing, witty, moving, and smart book about the question of human exceptionalism, this time in relation to desire and love, attending especially to literary and artistic works. The book makes a significant contribution particularly to a revisionist reading of modernist literary/artistic history with relation to the presence of the nonhuman animal, or the creaturely.---Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz-Dominic Pettman writes thoughtful, light-fingered books on significant questions that are simultaneously timely and timeless. In Creaturely Love, he takes up the perennial awkwardness that haunts every effort to etherealize romance: the proximity of our loving bodies to the critter-creatures that rut and tread and mount and cover each other just outside our windows. Drawing on the newest (and some of the oldest) thinking about humans and animals, Pettman here recalls us to ourselves--by ruminating on just how hard it is to say what exactly that might mean.---D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University
Author Information
Dominic Pettman is professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research. His books include Infinite Distraction, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines (Minnesota, 2011), Look at the Bunny, Love and Other Technologies, and Sonic Intimacy.
