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La Bête humaine

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191506451
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book La Bête humaine written by Émile Zola and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Human Beast: ...through the Lens of Evolution

Author : Nigel Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985569129
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book The Human Beast: ...through the Lens of Evolution written by Nigel Barber and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Human Beast scrutinizes riddles of human psychology through the lens of evolutionary theory. The book offers many surprising takes on everyday behavior. It appeals to a broad range of readers.

The Monomaniac

Author : Emile Zola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Monomaniac written by Emile Zola and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beast and Man

Author : Mary Midgley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134438451
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Beast and Man written by Mary Midgley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are rather more like other animals than we previously allowed ourselves to believe, and reminds us just how primitive we are in comparison to the sophistication of many animals. A veritable classic for our age, Beast and Man has helped change the way we think about ourselves and the world in which we live.

The Human Beast

Author : Cécile Perrel
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
ISBN 13 : 2808686595
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Human Beast written by Cécile Perrel and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should we learn from The Human Beast, the naturalist novel mixing the criminal world and the railway world? Find out everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed book report. You will find in this booklet : - A complete summary - A presentation of the main characters such as Jacques Lantier, Séverine Roubaud and Roubaud - An analysis of the specificities of the work: naturalism and heredity, men and machines, and a crime novel A reference analysis to quickly understand the meaning of the work.

The Human Beast of Burden

Author : Otis Tufton Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Human Beast of Burden written by Otis Tufton Mason and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Human Beast by Emile Zola - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Author : Emile Zola
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 178656257X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book The Human Beast by Emile Zola - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) written by Emile Zola and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Human Beast’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Emile Zola’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Zola includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Human Beast’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Zola’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Neither Beast Nor God

Author : Gilbert Meilaender
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458778657
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Neither Beast Nor God written by Gilbert Meilaender and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appeals to ''human dignity'' are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even contradictory ways of understanding the term. Is dignity something we all share equally therefore the reason we all ought to be treated as equals? Or is dignity what distinguishes some greater and more admirable human beings from the rest? What notion of human dignity should inform our private judgments and our public life? In Neither Beast Nor God, Gilbert Meilaender elaborates the philosophical, social, theological, and political implications of the question of dignity, and suggests a path through the thicket. A noted theologian and a prominent voice in America's bioethics debates, Meilaender traces the ways in which notions of dignity shape societies, families, and individual lives. He incisively cuts through some of the common confusions that cloud our thinking on kehy moral and ethical questions. The dignity of humanity and the dignity of the person, he argues, are distinct but deeply connected - and only by grasping them both can we find our way to a meaningful understanding of the human condition.

Ella and the Beast

Author : S.E. Smith
Publisher : Montana Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1942562977
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Ella and the Beast written by S.E. Smith and published by Montana Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA TODAY Bestselling author of Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, and Paranormal Romance brings another action, adventure, and suspense-filled story to transport readers out of this world. Ella is the last of a dying breed of humans that live hidden deep in the forests of Washington State. All of her life, she has heard horror stories about the Others, the beasts that live beyond the safety of the mountains. In ancient times, humans and the Others lived together in peace, but a great battle divided them and the shape-shifting species won the war. Ty Bearclaw, a grizzly shifter, is the curator at the Washington State Animal Sanctuary, Research, and Observation Center (WSASROC). A call from a rancher about an unusual animal causing havoc along the borders of the National Forest brings him to the Olympic Mountain National Park. Ty is furious when he discovers that the rancher has placed a trap to capture the creature on government-protected property. His shock soon turns to horror and confusion when he locates the wounded ‘animal.’ Ty finds more than he expects when a human, thought to be extinct, turns up in the trap. What is even more confusing is his bear’s reaction to the female. When word escapes about his discovery, Ty must fight to protect the unusual woman who is more than an oddity – she is his mate! Can Ty keep Ella alive and safe from a shifter obsessed with adding her to his private collection? Not only that, can he protect her when his own government threatens to take her away from him? More books in the More than Human series: Ella and the Beast: More than Human Book 1 Additional series: Cosmos’ Gateway Lords of Kassis Magic, New Mexico Dragon Lords of Valdier Dragonlings of Valdier Sarafin Warriors Curizan Warrior Marastin Dow Warriors Zion Warriors Project Gliese 581g Breaking Free Second Chance Spirit Pass Dust Fairy Tale Paranormal; action; adventure; fantasy; romance, s.e. smith; se smith; paranormal series; shapeshifters; human extinction. http://sesmithfl.com https://www.facebook.com/se.smith.5

God, Human, Animal, Machine

Author : Meghan O'Gieblyn
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525562710
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book God, Human, Animal, Machine written by Meghan O'Gieblyn and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.

Mimesis and the Human Animal

Author : Robert Storey
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810114585
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Mimesis and the Human Animal written by Robert Storey and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mimesis and the Human Animal, Robert Storey argues that human culture derives from human biology and that literary representation therefore must have a biological basis. As he ponders the question "What does it mean to say that art imitates life?" he must consider both "What is life?" and "What is art?" A unique approach to the subject of mimesis, Storey's book goes beyond the politicizing of literature grounded in literary theory to develop a scientific basis for the creation of literature and art.

Kafka's Zoopoetics

Author : Naama Harel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472902091
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Kafka's Zoopoetics written by Naama Harel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonhuman figures are ubiquitous in the work of Franz Kafka, from his early stories down to his very last one. Despite their prominence throughout his oeuvre, Kafka’s animal representations have been considered first and foremost as mere allegories of intrahuman matters. In recent years, the allegorization of Kafka’s animals has been poetically dismissed by Kafka’s commentators and politically rejected by posthumanist scholars. Such critique, however, has yet to inspire either an overarching or an interdiscursive account. This book aims to fill this lacuna. Positing animal stories as a distinct and significant corpus within Kafka’s entire poetics, and closely examining them in dialogue with both literary and posthumanist analysis, Kafka’s Zoopoetics critically revisits animality, interspecies relations, and the very human-animal contradistinction in the writings of Franz Kafka. Kafka’s animals typically stand at the threshold between humanity and animality, fusing together human and nonhuman features. Among his liminal creatures we find a human transformed into vermin (in “The Metamorphosis”), an ape turned into a human being (in “A Report to an Academy”), talking jackals (in “Jackals and Arabs”), a philosophical dog (in “Researches of a Dog”), a contemplative mole-like creature (in “The Burrow”), and indiscernible beings (in “Josefine, the Singer or the Mouse People”). Depicting species boundaries as mutable and obscure, Kafka creates a fluid human-animal space, which can be described as “humanimal.” The constitution of a humanimal space radically undermines the stark barrier between human and other animals, dictated by the anthropocentric paradigm. Through denying animalistic elements in humans, and disavowing the agency of nonhuman animals, excluding them from social life, and neutralizing compassion for them, this barrier has been designed to regularize both humanity and animality. The contextualization of Kafka's animals within posthumanist theory engenders a post-anthropocentric arena, which is simultaneously both imagined and very real.

The Human Beast

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book The Human Beast written by Émile Zola and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its first publication, The Human Beast was criticized by reviewers for its brutal depiction of murder and criminality. Indeed, in the novel, Zola describes vividly the way Roubaud cuts Grandmorin's throat, details the terrible deaths of the people in the train wreck, and describes Jacques's murder of Séverine. Written in the third person with an omniscient narrator, the novel delves into the psychology of the characters, particularly Jacques's eroticization of murder.The Human Beast is an example of the nineteenth century naturalist novel. Influenced by Darwinism and the emerging field of criminology, Zola developed his characters as driven by their "animal" impulses: for example, lust, greed, and the desire to kill. Zola compares the men in the novel to beasts fighting for mates, and even Jacques, although seemingly gentle, is driven by a "primitive" desire to kill and conquer. At the beginning of the novel, each of the characters has a moral sense of right and wrong, but slowly they succumb to the stronger animal impulses that law and morality cannot suppress. Like the nineteenth century realists, Zola places his characters within a specific historical context and depicts in detail the social conditions of the middle and working classes. However, in a strikingly new way, Zola uses the scientific language of his day to describe the psychological nature of individuals.

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 142996118X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism The phrase 'radical chic' was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. Radical Chic provocatively explores the relationship between Black rage and White guilt. Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, set in San Francisco at the Office of Economic Opportunity, details the corruption and dysfunction of the anti-poverty programs run at that time. Wolfe uncovers how much of the program's money failed to reach its intended recipients. Instead, hustlers gamed the system, causing the OEO efforts to fail the impoverished communities.

The Mark of the Beast

Author : Mark S. Roberts
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557534743
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Mark of the Beast written by Mark S. Roberts and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mark of the Beast historically and critically examines the dire effects of the process of animalization on both humans and animals. Roberts provides a general account of the theoretical division between humans and animals begun largely in the work of Aristotle and continued in that of Descartes and Kant. Following the philosophical provenance of the idea of animality, Roberts explores the practical and "scientific" uses of this idea, focusing largely on what Stephen J. Gould terms the "biodeterministic tradition" by evaluating the primarily ninteenth century theories of atavism, craniology, recapitulation, and so on, while also exploring the use of medical and psychological techniques of animalization.

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Author : David Quammen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066800
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic written by David Quammen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerginghuman diseases.

Being a Beast

Author : Charles Foster
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1627796339
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Being a Beast written by Charles Foster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue -- Becoming a beast -- Earth 1 : badger -- Water : otter -- Fire : fox -- Earth 2 : red deer -- Air : swift -- Epilogue.