One morning as they parted, Victor Menza's young daughter handed
him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder anew why rabbits
were their symbol of visitation: "How did this kind of creature
become such a powerful way of feeling your presence?" Through
philosophy, history, education, art, and personal musing on
everyday uncanny experiences, Menza reveals why people have long
found rabbits our special kin and emblems of love. Menza considers
human nature and how we are undone by separation--both from one
another and from our childhood selves. Surprising allies in these
non-traditional philosophical wanderings include Ludwig
Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bowen,
William Turner, Albert Murray, Beatrix Potter, Henry Koster's film
Harvey, Jean Toomer, Donald Winnicott, Leopold Senghor, and Lev
Vygotsky. Menza offers examinations of what symbols are and how
they work, the value of dialect, and the subversive lessons in
animal fables, alongside his thoughts on language learning, memory,
and slavery. Only now did he see that he'd taken to Brer Rabbit
early on. Just as the Uncle Remus tales displayed the small hero's
virtues in warm dialogues, The Rabbit Between Us shows how we
abound in talents and moves when we 'lean like Socrates did to the
Aesop in us'. Gentle and political at once, this unique book will
appeal to any intellectually curious reader.
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