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humanimalia-10050	Traisnel, Antoine	Zarathustra’s Philosafari	2012	24	.pdf	application/pdf	9831	479	55	Rather, I see this allegorical distance as necessary in order to unsettle both a strictly figurative viewpoint and a naturalist perspective on animal life.7 When Benjamin invokes the remedial potential of allegory, it is not because of the symbolical reconciliation it appears to promise – whereas Fontenay aspires to a metaphor-free idiom overcoming the “Great Divide”8 between man and animal – but, on the contrary, because allegory is, in Deleuze’s words, a “power of figuration” that “uncovers nature and history according to the order of time.”9 In an ironic gesture, Nietzsche suggests that language might not simply be the human’s privilege over animals that are presumed to be speechless, but rather the symptom of his compulsion to express himself, his having “forgotten how to be silent” (108),2 or better, his having forgotten how to forget.	cache/humanimalia-10050.pdf	txt/humanimalia-10050.txt