Animal Acts - Configuring the Human in Western History (Hardcover, annotated edition)

Animals have been subjects and objects of an ageless discourse in Western culture, which seeks through reincarnations, metamorphoses and philosophical vision to define the human and the animal and the nature of the border that separates the two. At a moment in history when the human being is about to be replaced by the machine, there is a blurring of the old line separating humans from animals. There is a desire to look for human uniqueness in the animal body, not the rational mind; a desire to re-examine the historical record in search of a lost tradition of zoomorphic shamans, trainers, poets and philosophers. This text records the history of that fluctuating boundary between animals and humans as expressed in literary, philosophical and scientific texts, but also in the visual arts and historical practices such as dissections, the hunt, zoo construction, and circus acts.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	Jennifer Ham • Matthew Senior
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-91609-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Animals & society > General Books > Philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-91609-7
Barcode:	9780415916097

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