Abstracts
Abstract
The sovereign gaze of the human subject has predominated in natural science and aesthetics across representations of animality and animal lifeworlds. Nonetheless, exceptions to such sovereign gazes, characterised by distantiation, hierarchies, dichotomies of gazer and gazed-at, are found in the work of von Uexküll and da Vinci, in the exceptional quality of attention they bring to their tasks; a transformative attention, revealing as Merleau-Ponty describes “a strange kinship” of interanimality.
Résumé
Le regard souverain du sujet humain a prédominé dans les représentations de l’animalité et des animaux dans les sciences naturelles et l’esthétique. Néanmoins, les oeuvres de Vinci ou les écrits d’Uexküll font exception parmi ces regards caractérisés par la distanciation, la hiérarchie, et les dichotomies entre le regardant et le regardé. À travers la qualité exceptionnelle de ces oeuvres se déploie une attention transformatrice, révélant comme l’a décrit Merleau-Ponty “une parenté étrange” d’interanimalité.
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