At the Borders of the Human
Beasts, Bodies and National Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
Published on 5. September 1999
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-333-72186-5 (ISBN)
Description
What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. The development of Renaissance technologies of difference such as mapping, colonialism and anatomy paradoxically also illuminated the similarities between human and non-human. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others: animals, women, native subjects, machines. It examines border creatures (hermaphrodites, wildmen and cyborgs) and border practices (science, surveying and pornography).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 143 mm
Weight
543 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-72186-5 (9780333721865)
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Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
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Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
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Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
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09/1999
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Content
List of Illustrations - List of Contributors - Introduction: the Dislocation of the Human; E.Fudge, R.Gilbert, S.J.Wiseman - Humanity at a Price: Erasmus, Budi, and the Poverty of Philology; A.Stewart - Animal Passions and Human Science: Shame, Blushing and Nakedness in Early Modern Europe and the New World; B.Cummings - Bodily Regimen and Fear of the Beast: 'Plausibility' in Renaissance Domestic Tragedy; M.Healy - Midwifery and the New Science in the Seventeenth Century: Language, Print and the Theatre; J.Sanders - Calling Creatures By Their True Names: Bacon, the New Science and the Beast in Man; E.Fudge - Cartographic Arrest: Harvey, Raleigh, Drayton and the Mapping of Sense; S.Speed - 'The Doubtful Traveller': Mathematics, Metaphor, and the Cartographic Origins of the American Frontier; J.Edwards - Seeing and Knowing : Science, Pornography and Early Modern Hermaphrodites; R.Gilbert - 'Forms Such as Never Were in Nature': The Renaissance Cyborg; J.Sawday - Bodies Without Souls; The Case of Peter the Wild Boy; M.Newton - Monstrous Perfectibility: Ape-Human Transformations in Hobbes, Bulwer, Rousseau; S.Wiseman - The Economy of Nymphomania: Luxury, Virtue, Sentiment and Desire in Mid-Eighteenth Century Medical Discourse; M.Peace - Index