To our modern ears the word "creature" has wild, musky, even
monstrous, connotations. And yet the terms "creaturely" and "love,"
taken together, have traditionally been associated with theological
debates around the enigmatic affection between God and His key
creation, Man. In Creaturely Love, Dominic Pettman explores the
ways in which desire makes us both more, and less, human. In an
eminently approachable work of wide cultural reach and meticulous
scholarship, Pettman undertakes an unprecedented examination of how
animals shape the understanding and expression of love between
people. Focusing on key figures in modern philosophy, art, and
literature (Nietzsche, Salome, Rilke, Balthus, Musil, Proust),
premodern texts and fairy tales (Fourier, Fournival, Ovid), and
contemporary films and online phenomena (Wendy and Lucy, Her,
memes), Pettman demonstrates that from pet names to spirit animals,
and allegories to analogies, animals have constantly appeared in
our writings and thoughts about passionate desire. By following
certain charismatic animals during their passage through the love
letters of philosophers, the romances of novelists, the conceits of
fables, the epiphanies of poets, the paradoxes of contemporary
films, and the digital menageries of the Internet, Creaturely Love
ultimately argues that in our utilization of the animal in our
amorous expression, we are acknowledging that what we adore in our
beloveds is not (only) their humanity, but their creatureliness.
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