The Flesh is Weak. Empathy and Becoming Human in Jonathan Glazer's "Under the Skin"

Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 film Under the Skin offers an unsettling meditation on humanness through the eyes of an alien predator. This essay reflects on Glazer’s film by drawing it into conversation with the later phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, with Heidegger, Martin Buber, and with a number...

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Main Author: Colin Heber-Percy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics) 2020-07-01
Series:Aesthetic Investigations
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Online Access:https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/11943