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Perceiving Animals

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349624152
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Perceiving Animals written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Perceiving Animals

Author : Erica Fudge
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070686
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Perceiving Animals written by Erica Fudge and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boundaries between human and beast forged a rugged philosophical landscape across early modern England. Spectators gathered in London's Bear Garden to watch the callous and brutal baiting of animals. A wave of "new" scientists performed vivisections on live animals to learn more about the human body. In Perceiving Animals, the British scholar Erica Fudge traces the dangers and problems of anthropocentrism in texts written from 1558 to 1649. Meticulous examinations of scientific, legal, political, literary, and religious writings offer unique and fascinating depictions of human perceptions about the natural world. Views carried over from bestiaries--medieval treatises on animals-- posited animals as nonsentient beings whose merits were measured solely by what provisions they afforded humans: food, medicine, clothing, travel, labor, scientific knowledge. Without consciences or faith, animals were deemed far inferior to humans. While writings from the period asserted an enormous biological superiority, Fudge contends actual human behavior and logic worked, sometimes accidentally, to close the alleged gap. In the Bear Garden, even a man of the lowest social rank had power over a tortured animal, sinking him, though, below the beasts. The beast fable itself fails to show a true understanding of animals, as it merely attributes human characteristics to beasts in an attempt to teach humanist ideals. Scholars and writers continually turned to the animal world for reflection. Despite this, scientists of the period used animals for empirical and medical knowledge, recognizing biological and spiritual similarities but refusing to renege human superiority. Including an insightful reexamination of Ben Jonson's Volpone and fascinating looks at works by Francis Bacon, Edward Coke, and Richard Overton, among others, Fudge probes issues of animal ownership and biological and spiritual superiority in early modern England that resonate with philosophical quandaries still relevant in contemporary society.

The Letters of Junius

Author : Junius (pseud.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Junius written by Junius (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Animal Madness

Author : Laurel Braitman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451627009
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Animal Madness written by Laurel Braitman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the first time, a historian of science draws evidence from across the world to show how humans and other animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to their feelings and the ways in which they lose their minds"--

Semiotics of Animals in Culture

Author : Gianfranco Marrone
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319729926
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Animals in Culture written by Gianfranco Marrone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following the old admonition of Montaigne: it is not that animals do not talk, it is us who do not understand them. Recent research in the field of the anthropology of nature and sociology of sciences and techniques allow to think about the Zoosemiotic issue in a different way. Instead of transplanting the language structures – gestures, LIS, etc. – for a semiotic study of the forms of the human and social meaning, it seems more apt to look at their discourse, and as such, the actual interactions, communicative and scientific as well as practical and functional, between humans and non-humans. This book aims to investigate precisely this hypothesis, known here as Zoosemiotics 2.0, working on several fronts and levels: · Anthropology · Languages of the image and visual representations, from art history to cinema · Old and new media. From literature to comics, from cartoons to TV documentaries but also advertising, music, Web and social networks. All those cultural products that talk about the role of human and non-human in society implicitly proposing (and in some way imposing) a form of articulation of such a relationship. · Food and feeding rites · Animalist, vegetarian and vegan movements · Philosophy: metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics

The Letters of Junius ...

Author : Junius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Junius ... written by Junius and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Animal Narratology

Author : Joela Jacobs
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039283480
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Animal Narratology written by Joela Jacobs and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Narratology interrogates what it means to narrate, to speak—speak for, on behalf of—and to voice, or represent life beyond the human, which is in itself as different as insects, bears, and dogs are from each other, and yet more, as individual as a single mouse, horse, or puma. The varied contributions to this interdisciplinary Special Issue highlight assumptions about the human perception of, attitude toward, and responsibility for the animals that are read and written about, thus demonstrating that just as “the animal” does not exist, neither does “the human”. In their zoopoetic focus, the analyses are aware that animal narratology ultimately always contains an approximation of an animal perspective in human terms and terminology, yet they make clear that what matters is how the animal is approximated and that there is an effort to approach and encounter the non-human in the first place. Many of the analyses come to the conclusion that literary animals give readers the opportunity to expand their own points of view both on themselves and others by adopting another’s perspective to the degree that such an endeavor is possible. Ultimately, the contributions call for a recognition of the many spaces, moments, and modes in which human lives are entangled with those of animals—one of which is located within the creative bounds of storytelling.

The Letters of Junius. With Notes and Illustrations; Historical, Political, Biographical and Critical; by Robert Heron. 2. Ed

Author : Junius II
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Junius. With Notes and Illustrations; Historical, Political, Biographical and Critical; by Robert Heron. 2. Ed written by Junius II and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Animal City

Author : Andrew A. Robichaud
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067491936X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Animal City written by Andrew A. Robichaud and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do America’s cities look the way they do? If we want to know the answer, we should start by looking at our relationship with animals. Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This was true not just in rural areas but also in cities, which were crowded with livestock and beasts of burden. But as urban areas grew in the nineteenth century, these relationships changed. Slaughterhouses, dairies, and hog ranches receded into suburbs and hinterlands. Milk and meat increasingly came from stores, while the family cow and pig gave way to the household pet. This great shift, Andrew Robichaud reveals, transformed people’s relationships with animals and nature and radically altered ideas about what it means to be human. As Animal City illustrates, these transformations in human and animal lives were not inevitable results of population growth but rather followed decades of social and political struggles. City officials sought to control urban animal populations and developed sweeping regulatory powers that ushered in new forms of urban life. Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals worked to enhance certain animals’ moral standing in law and culture, in turn inspiring new child welfare laws and spurring other wide-ranging reforms. The animal city is still with us today. The urban landscapes we inhabit are products of the transformations of the nineteenth century. From urban development to environmental inequality, our cities still bear the scars of the domestication of urban America.

Radical Food: Ethics and politics

Author : Timothy Morton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415203999
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Radical Food: Ethics and politics written by Timothy Morton and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reprints a fascinating variety of texts originally published between 1790 and 1820. Offering a unique look at the cultural and literary history of food in the eighteenth century, some highlights include: treatises on food and drink adulteration; vegetarian tracts; the period's most influential pamphlet about boycotting sugar as part of the anti-slavery debate; works on alcohol consumption, Shelley's translation of Euripedes' satyr play about cannibalism; and much more.

An Essay in condemnation of Cruelty to Animals

Author : Samuel SHARP (F.S.A.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book An Essay in condemnation of Cruelty to Animals written by Samuel SHARP (F.S.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rosemary's Letter Book

Author : William Leonard Courtney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rosemary's Letter Book written by William Leonard Courtney and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Animals Talk

Author : William Joseph Long
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book How Animals Talk written by William Joseph Long and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1919 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How Animals Talk explores the phenomenon of vocal, silent, and even motionless communication among animals. From crow talk to instant herd communication, author William J. Long theorizes that animals are much more intelligent, emotional, and moral than we have traditionally thought and that their ability to sense the presence of other living beings is an innate ability shared by humans as well. Based on many years of field observations, this classic text contains numerous examples of animal behavior that defy conventional explanation"--Simon & Schuster website, viewed September 14, 2022.

The Author's Effects

Author : Nicola J. Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192586831
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Author's Effects written by Nicola J. Watson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity. It traces how and why the writer's bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer's house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relics—Burns' skull, Keats' hair, Petrarch's cat, Poe's raven, Brontë's bonnet, Dickinson's dress, Shakespeare's chair, Austen's desk, Woolf's spectacles, Hawthorne's window, Freud's mirror, Johnson's coffee-pot and Bulgakov's stove, amongst many others. It investigates houses within which nineteenth-century writers mythologised themselves and their work—Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' tower, Scott's Abbotsford and Irving's Sunnyside. And it tracks literary tourists of the past to such long-celebrated literary homes as Petrarch's Arquà, Rousseau's Ile St Pierre, and Shakespeare's Stratford to find out what they thought and felt and did, discovering deep continuities with the redevelopment of Shakespeare's New Place for 2016.

The Rights of Animals; on the Responsibility and Obligation of Man, in the Treatment He is Bound to Observe Towards the Animal Creation

Author : Sarah Burdett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Rights of Animals; on the Responsibility and Obligation of Man, in the Treatment He is Bound to Observe Towards the Animal Creation written by Sarah Burdett and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Dumb Animals

Author : George Thorndike Angell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Our Dumb Animals written by George Thorndike Angell and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Springs of Western Civilization

Author : James A. Arieti
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498534805
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Springs of Western Civilization written by James A. Arieti and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Springs of Western Civilization is a comparative exploration of the Hebraic and classical traditions that form our heritage. In examining these traditions before they united, James Arieti locates the catalyst for their bonding in two related circumstances: adoption by the biblical world of an eclectic mélange of Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism that, in the centuries on each side of the Common Era, produced consensus models both of God and of a warmhearted individual; and belief that the writings of Plato were literally true—a belief that arose from failing to understand his playful, metaphorical techniques of composition. Among the many effects of the mingling of biblical and philosophical values was a re-focusing of literature from the heroes of epic to the compassionate characters we recognize as Menschen.