Published: 2015-12-23

Close to the Ground. Some Lessons of the Hedgehog

Tadeusz Sławek Logo ORCID

Abstract

Reading Jacques Derrida’s essay Che cos’è la poesia? as well as poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Hardy, and Tadeusz Kijonka, we want to argue that the animal helps us to redefine the human subject. When pondering the fuzzy boundary between the human and the non-human, man interprets himself/herself not as a subject isolated in its sublime aspirations but, rather, as a fragile connection, delicate relation with what begs for his/her protection and care.

Keywords:

hedgehog , animal , human , care , translation , heart , memory

Citation rules

Sławek, T. (2015). Close to the Ground. Some Lessons of the Hedgehog. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (1), 45–60. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/ZOOPHILOLOGICA/article/view/4822

Zoophilologica – T.1 (2015) – Zwierzęce/Animalis

No. 1 (2015)
Published: 2016-08-14


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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