Benjaminian “Rettung”: The Philosopher between the Animal & the Poet

For Montaigne, Nietzsche, or Benjamin, the ultimate purpose of philosophy becomes manifest as extasis before an easy slope — light and graceful after the manner of the heavenly vault; a delicate surface — the speckled epidermis of the ocean —, or trembling foliage.In order to approach the poetic relationship to the landscape — landscape that can only be understood as space inhabited by animals — we may place, at the core of such an exploration, like so many undisclosed enigmas, the animals, b...