Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English CultureSpringer, 2016 M04 30 - 232 páginas When we look at the human understanding of beasts in the past what we see are not only the foundations of our own perception of animals but humans contemplating their own status. Perceiving Animals argues that what is revealed in a wide range of writing from the early modern period is a recurring attempt to separate the human from the beast. Looking at the representation of the animal in law, religious writings, literary representation, science and political ideas, what emerges is a sense of the fragility of humanity, a sense of a species which always requires an external addition - property, civilisation, education, mastery of the natural world - to be fully human. Erica Fudge engages with both canonical and non-canonical texts from the period 1558-1649, and examines previously unchallenged aspects of the status of humanity: what does it mean to own an animal? How does civilisation take place, and what does this tell us about uncivilised man? What does the humanist emphasis on education mean for the uneducated? Does science ever offer humanity separation from the beast? Texts by writers including Edward Coke, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and Richard Overton are re-examined, and the status of humanity comes under question. Perceiving Animals argues that within early modern English culture there is an uncomfortable sense of humanity with a superiority which is not innate, but dangerously unnatural. |
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... human is constantly setting itself against . Because of this Perceiving Animals is a book not so much about animals as about the ways in which humans define themselves as human in the face of the animal . The making of the boundary ...
... human is constantly setting itself against . Because of this Perceiving Animals is a book not so much about animals as about the ways in which humans define themselves as human in the face of the animal . The making of the boundary ...
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Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture NA NA. why this book undermines the apparently antithetical binary of animal and human . It is about both animals and humans ; the link is inevitable . Reading about animals is always ...
Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture NA NA. why this book undermines the apparently antithetical binary of animal and human . It is about both animals and humans ; the link is inevitable . Reading about animals is always ...
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... animal – humans must praise God on their behalf – but the duty to animals ... human centrality . To say that any of these poems is about animals is to ... animal should be . For this reason the ideas voiced in ' To Penshurst ' , ' To ...
... animal – humans must praise God on their behalf – but the duty to animals ... human centrality . To say that any of these poems is about animals is to ... animal should be . For this reason the ideas voiced in ' To Penshurst ' , ' To ...
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... human from the animal , is bovine , where is the dis- tinction ? Where is the human ? Nietzsche's response to this was to propose the figure of the Ubermensch , the superman who would rise above the human , but who would also be no ...
... human from the animal , is bovine , where is the dis- tinction ? Where is the human ? Nietzsche's response to this was to propose the figure of the Ubermensch , the superman who would rise above the human , but who would also be no ...
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... animal can beg , then is a ( human ) beggar also an animal ? The implications of this question are played out in the sense that in order to assert human status writers have to make exclusions . Some humans are aligned with animals : in ...
... animal can beg , then is a ( human ) beggar also an animal ? The implications of this question are played out in the sense that in order to assert human status writers have to make exclusions . Some humans are aligned with animals : in ...
Contenido
11 | |
Animals | 34 |
The Humanist Interpretation | 64 |
Science Animal | 91 |
Knowing Animals and the Law | 115 |
The Bestialisation of Humanity and the Salvation | 143 |
Return to the Bear Garden | 167 |
Bibliography | 210 |
Index | 226 |
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Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture NA NA Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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