期刊名称：Cultura : International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology
印刷版ISSN：1584-1057
电子版ISSN：2065-5002
出版年度：2007
卷号：8
出版社：AXIS Fundation, University “Al.I.Cuza” Iassy
摘要：From the Greek satyr to the American Mickey Mouse and from the Chinese
dragon to the Egyptian Sphinx, animals and animal/humans have come through
human imagination into myth, legend and story. This combination or fusion of animal
and human in literature presents a double signification. At the same time that our
attention goes to the animality of the human, we may also entertain the human(al)ity of
the animal. Besides blending of physical and psychological characteristics, these ancient
and modern characters of world texts may embed authentic experiences of communion
or communication between humans and animals. The texts may be understood as
signifying the limits of both the human and the animal and the possibility of the
humanimal. Humanimality signifies the fusion of human and animal which dissolves
the ordinary dualism of human subject and animal object and allows for
intersubjectivity unmarked by specific biological limitations. This kind of
intersubjectivity occurs in the contact of communication and is often an occasion for
awe on the part of the human if not of the animal. We may understand such awesome
communication as imitation, non-verbal cooperation, and as teaching and learning.
Three poems by the author, reproduced in the Appendix, ¡°The Ravens Fly Yet,¡±
¡°Neighbors,¡± and ¡°The Lesson,¡± provide the literary fields in which humanimal
phenomena may appear.1
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