O ENCONTRO ENTRE FILOSOFIA E LITERATURA COMO FERRAMENTA PARA A COMPREENSÃO DA ALTERIDADE ANIMAL EM THE LIVES OF THE ANIMALS, DE J.M. COETZEE
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10.46551/issn2179-6793RA2023v25n1_a04Keywords:
Literature and Philosophy, Animal otherness, Affectation, BecomingAbstract
This article intends to demonstrate that the encounter between the rational discourse of philosophy and the artistic discourse of literature can produce new ways of apprehending animal otherness in the novel The Lives of the Animals, by J. M. Coetzee. In the novel, the protagonist argues that it is not strictly through reason and philosophy that we will be able to get in touch with animal otherness, but also through the sensitivity of poetry. As an alternative to an essentialist thought, it is proposed, based on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari (1995), a rhizomatic idea, focused on unpredictability of becomings as the creation of deterritorialized identities, both of the disciplinary bodies of philosophy and literature, as well as of human and animal bodies.
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