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| Titre : |
The animal mediator of the human. Powerful but limited by artificiality, modernity feels the need to find a relationship with nature |
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| Numéro : |
30 |
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| Année : |
2007 |
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| Volume : |
XIII |
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| Auteur(s) : |
Franck COSSON |
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| Résumé : |
Assuming that the disenchantment of the world is due to the rupture between the modern man and nature, this article aims at reassessing the importance of animals and showing why animal experience is necessary for man in order to fulfill his life as a human as well as a social being. Animals have indeed become a major stake for a modern world which has cut itself off from nature and feels the need to reconnect itself to it. On the one hand, some priviledged experiences such as stroking make it possible to establish tangible relations and experience a feeling of perfect happiness. On the other hand, the relation to pets can be seen as an extension of democratic individualism: we are in search of a double that is inferior to us, available whenever we want. The interest we feel for wild animals might mean that we need a genuine contact with a nature that has remained untouched, a nature that has an ontological meaning.It might also be a sign that the modern man, freed from the uniformity and alienation of the world around, has gained a wealth of experience. More significantly, animals may be considered as mediators: within a dialectic relation involving what they have in common with us together with what makes them different, they enable us to know ourselves better, to achieve a form of self-knowledge which is all the more valuable as it gives us access to the plurality of animal worlds. A phenomenological approach reveals that, far from being alienating or restrictive, the process of identifying with the animal leads us to reconsider our relation to the world. Animals may contribute to the “reenchantment” of the world. They may allow us to have access to a new humanism based on an anthropozoological relation rather than on an insuperable divide. |
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| Pages : |
71 - 88 |
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| DOI : |
https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-2007-30-page-71.htm |
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| Type : |
Research paper |
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| Keywords : |
mediation, intersubjectivity, self, knwoledge, alterity/identity, animal movement, anthropozoology, sensibility, phenomenology, ontology |
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| APA : |
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| Citations : |
3 |
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| CAIRN : |
https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-2007-30-page-71.htm |
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