The Animal at Unease with Itself
Death Anxiety and the Animal-Human Boundary in Genesis 2-3
Seiten
2020
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-0291-2 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-0291-2 (ISBN)
In this book, Isaac Alderman uses insights from the cognitive study of death anxiety and disgust to examine the animal-human boundary in Genesis 2-3, providing biblical scholars with a case study for how this interdisciplinary approach can be used to analyze texts that deal with themes of mortality, the human body, or the animal-human boundary.
Quoting Derrida, Isaac Alderman draws attention to the fact that humans are the only animals who are disturbed by nakedness. This unease with regard to our own bodies is an important aspect of the study of disgust and death anxiety. Alderman seeks to apply terror management theorists’ focus on death anxiety to biblical studies and to utilize the concept of animal reminder disgust——the visceral reaction to reminders of our animality——to better understand the opening chapters of Genesis, dealing particularly with themes of mortality, the human body, and the animal-human boundary in those chapters. After describing relevant aspects of cognitive science, terror management theory, and animal reminder disgust, Alderman demonstrates, using Genesis 2—3 (and the role of clothing as a marker of the animal-human boundary there) as a case study, that an interdisciplinary approach that draws on cognitive science can illumine the biblical text in important ways.
Quoting Derrida, Isaac Alderman draws attention to the fact that humans are the only animals who are disturbed by nakedness. This unease with regard to our own bodies is an important aspect of the study of disgust and death anxiety. Alderman seeks to apply terror management theorists’ focus on death anxiety to biblical studies and to utilize the concept of animal reminder disgust——the visceral reaction to reminders of our animality——to better understand the opening chapters of Genesis, dealing particularly with themes of mortality, the human body, and the animal-human boundary in those chapters. After describing relevant aspects of cognitive science, terror management theory, and animal reminder disgust, Alderman demonstrates, using Genesis 2—3 (and the role of clothing as a marker of the animal-human boundary there) as a case study, that an interdisciplinary approach that draws on cognitive science can illumine the biblical text in important ways.
Isaac Alderman (PhD, The Catholic University of America) has published articles and presented at conferences on various biblical passages in the context of cognitive science, pedagogy, and reception theory.
Chapter 1: The Cognitive Turn
Chapter 2: The Hero who Faces Death
Chapter 3: Embodiment and Meaning
Chapter 4: The Bible and Death
Chapter 5: I Am Not an Animal
Chapter 6: The Animal Turn
Chapter 7: Humans, Animals, and Clothing
Chapter 8: Humans, Animals, and Clothing in Genesis 2-3
Chapter 9: Garments of Skins
Chapter 10: Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 494 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9787-0291-4 / 1978702914 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9787-0291-2 / 9781978702912 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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