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The Animal at Unease with Itself
Death Anxiety and the Animal-Human Boundary in Genesis 2-3
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2020
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Quoting Derrida, in The Animal at Unease with Itself: Death Anxiety and the Animal-Human Boundary in Genesis 2–3 Isaac M. 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.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0291-2
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978-1-9787-0292-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
187
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 The Cognitive Turn No access Pages 1 - 22
2 The Hero Who Faces Death No access Pages 23 - 40
3 Embodiment and Meaning No access Pages 41 - 56
4 The Bible and Death No access Pages 57 - 74
5 I Am Not an Animal No access Pages 75 - 84
6 The Animal Turn No access Pages 85 - 98
7 Humans, Animals, and Clothing No access Pages 99 - 116
8 Humans, Animals, and Clothing in Genesis 2–3 No access Pages 117 - 142
9 Garments of Skin No access Pages 143 - 156
Conclusion No access Pages 157 - 160
Bibliography No access Pages 161 - 178
Index of Ancient Texts and Names No access Pages 179 - 182
