Vi har intet at hovmode os over. Den anti-antropocentriske Andersen

Forfattere

  • Torsten Bøgh Thomsen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v32i77.97039

Nøgleord:

nymaterialisme, antropocentrisme, H.C. Andersen

Resumé

Torsten Bøgh Thomsen: “We Have Nothing to be Arrogant About: Anti-anthropocentrism in Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairytales of Things”

The article presents readings of some of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytales of things in relation to new materialist theory. The argument is that Andersen writes with an artistic sensitivity toward the material world that puts forth discussions about agency, autonomy, conditionality, mastery and instrumentalism in a poetological setting. Furthermore, the argument is that this material aesthetic comes about through a deliberate use of some of the more radical elements of Romantic philosophy that challenges the anthropocentric ideals of Universal and National Romanticism and softens the gap between Romanticism and Modernity in a way that seems congruent with late modern environmental thinking.

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Publiceret

2017-09-20

Citation/Eksport

Thomsen, T. B. (2017). Vi har intet at hovmode os over. Den anti-antropocentriske Andersen. Passage - Tidsskrift for Litteratur Og Kritik, 32(77). https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v32i77.97039