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Wisdom of Animals
2014
Overview
Throughout Western civilization, animals have decorated heraldic
shields, populated medieval manuscripts, and ornamented baroque
pottery. Animals have also been our companions, our correctives,
and our ciphers as humanity has represented and addressed issues of
authority, cultural strife, and self-awareness as theological,
moral, and social beings. In The Wisdom of Animals:
Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality , Catharine
Randall traces two threads of thought that consistently appear in a
number of early modern French texts: how animals are used as a
means for humans to explore themselves and the meaning of
existence; and how animals can be subjects in their own right.
In her accessible, interdisciplinary study, Randall explores the
link between philosophical and theological discussions of the
nature and status of animals vis-à-vis the rest of existence,
particularly humans. In doing so, she provides the early modern
backdrop for the more frequently studied modern and postmodern
notions of animality. Randall approaches her themes by way of
French confessional and devotional literature, especially the works
of Michel de Montaigne, Guillaume Salluste Du Bartas, St. François
de Sales, and Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant. From these, she elicits
contrasting perspectives of animality: rational vs. mystical,
representational vs. sacramental, religious vs. secular, and
Protestant vs. Jesuit Catholic perspectives.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Subject
ISBN
0268040354, 9780268040352, 0268091803, 9780268091804
