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Somos animales po�ticos / We are poetic animals: Algunos usos de los libros y el arte en estos tiempos cr�ticos / Some uses of books and art in these critical times
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Somos animales po�ticos / We are poetic animals: Algunos usos de los libros y el arte en estos tiempos cr�ticos / Some uses of books and art in these critical times
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Somos animales po�ticos / We are poetic animals: Algunos usos de los libros y el arte en estos tiempos cr�ticos / Some uses of books and art in these critical times
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En esta colección de textos concebidos en distintas partes del mundo, Michèle Petit analiza el lugar del arte y la literatura en el contexto de las crisis que se han venido multiplicando en los últimos años: guerras, cambio climático, pandemias, etcétera. Se trata aquí de la belleza que permite transfigurar lo peor después de una tragedia; de la transmisión cultural en el exilio, que es la suerte de tantos niños, mujeres y hombres en la actualidad; de la forma en que el lenguaje, cuando se acerca al canto, nos permite sintonizarnos con el espacio y con eso que llamamos naturaleza; de los sueños de los que estamos hechos y que la literatura ayuda a redescubrir; de las bibliotecas, esas casas del pensamiento donde se inventan nuevas formas de convivencia; de la discreta compañía de los libros durante la pandemia de covid-19… Michèle Petit nos recuerda que para los seres humanos lo utilitario nunca es suficiente y que no podemos reducirnos a variables económicas ni a nuestros roles sociales: somos también, y quizá por encima de todo, animales poéticos.
In this collection of texts conceived in different parts of the world, Michèle Petit analyzes the place of art and literature in the context of the crises that have been multiplying in recent years: wars, climate change, pandemics, etc. Here it is about the beauty that allows the worst to be transfigured after a tragedy; of cultural transmission in exile, which is the fate of so many children, women and men today; of the way in which language, when approached to song, allows us to tune in to space and to what we call nature; of the dreams of which we are made and that literature helps us rediscover; of libraries, those houses of thought where new forms of coexistence are invented; from the discreet company of books during the covid-19 pandemic… Michèle Petit reminds us that for human beings the utilitarian is never enough and that we cannot reduce ourselves to economic variables or our social roles: we are also, and perhaps above all, poetic animals.
In this collection of texts conceived in different parts of the world, Michèle Petit analyzes the place of art and literature in the context of the crises that have been multiplying in recent years: wars, climate change, pandemics, etc. Here it is about the beauty that allows the worst to be transfigured after a tragedy; of cultural transmission in exile, which is the fate of so many children, women and men today; of the way in which language, when approached to song, allows us to tune in to space and to what we call nature; of the dreams of which we are made and that literature helps us rediscover; of libraries, those houses of thought where new forms of coexistence are invented; from the discreet company of books during the covid-19 pandemic… Michèle Petit reminds us that for human beings the utilitarian is never enough and that we cannot reduce ourselves to economic variables or our social roles: we are also, and perhaps above all, poetic animals.