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The Rhetorical Invention of Man - A History of Distinguishing Humans from Other Animals (Hardcover)
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The Rhetorical Invention of Man - A History of Distinguishing Humans from Other Animals (Hardcover)
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This book draws attention to the logical contradictions, unstable
premises, and unquestioned assumptions that underlie arguments
about Man's distinction, while also demonstrating that the way we
think about nonhuman animals is only one possibility among many.
Vestiges of older ways of thinking continue to inform our
understanding of the human-nonhuman animal relationship, disturbing
the simple narrative that Man has mastered nature. The reader will
additionally find here a history that illuminates popular attitudes
toward nature as well as intellectual traditions about the
relationship between Man and other animals. As a result, each
chapter is an overview of how the past continues to inform the
present. The chapters, then, move back and forth between ancient
ideas like the myths of Prometheus and Orpheus, Age of Reason
philosophers like Francis Bacon and Immanuel Kant and modern
practices like petkeeping and vivisection.
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