animality

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“Wolf Play” suggests there’s an animality connecting us that transcends gendered social scripts; kinship and love are wild and don’t play by any rules.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

Bacon, an avowed atheist, shows human life as pure animality.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2019

He thinks that personhood is a form of self-imposed dullness and yearns for the vivid openness of animality.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

It’s the particular triumph of his animal characters, however, that they never become merely allegorical—or rather, they become allegorical while retaining their singularity and animality.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2014

It consists precisely in the progressive negation of the primitive animality of man by the development of his humanity.

From God and the State by Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich