Animals, Humans: those others so close

04/03/2021
Local: 17:00
Paris: 18:00
EHESS ENS Paris, Paris, FR
France
French
http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/animaux

The ecological crisis is urgently reviving our awareness of the finitude of the Earth, the limits of human appropriation of the planet and the interdependence of living beings whose vulnerability brings them together in a common destiny. Our future may lie in this correlation between the limits of the human and the proximity of the living. Inventing the forms of a new solidarity, or even a care pact, is the major challenge of our time.
In terms of proximity, the pandemic has had its say for a year. It obliges us to regulate the 'right distance' (Lévi-Strauss) in new ways of being close and far away that reconfigure our encounters and reactivate the question of neighbour.
In this meeting with Anne Simon, theorist of zoopoetics, and Frédéric Worms, philosopher, we propose a debate on relations with our neighbours, considered from the angle of a concern for others based on care, attention and solicitude, but also considered in a wider circle that includes other living beings and in particular animals.
This session is part of the REVIF project, the Animots network, the activities of the 2i research group (CEHUM) and the programme of the Mois de la Francophonie.

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