At the Borders of the Human Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period

Name: At the Borders of the Human Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
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ISBN: 9780333973844

ISBN-10: 0333973844

ISBN-13: 9780333973844

Edition: 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, Susan Wiseman, Gilbert Ruth, Palgrave

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What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world.

Book details

List price: $74.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 9/5/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 269
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Notes on the Contributors


Introduction: the Dislocation of the Human




Humanity at a Price: Erasmus, Bude, and the Poverty of Philology




Animal Passions and Human Sciences: Shame, Blushing and Nakedness in Early Modern Europe and the New World




Bodily Regimen and Fear of the Beast: 'Plausibility' in Renaissance Domestic Tragedy




Midwifery and the New Science in the Seventeenth Century: Language, Print and the Theatre




Calling Creatures by their True Names: Bacon, the New Science and the Beast in Man




Cartographic Arrest: Harvey, Raleigh, Drayton and the Mapping of Sense




'The Doubtful Traveller': Mathematics, Metaphor, and the Cartographic Origins of the American Frontier




Seeing and Knowing: Science, Pornography and Early Modern Hermaphrodites




'Forms Such as Never Were in Nature': the Renaissance Cyborg




Bodies without Souls: the Case of Peter the Wild Boy




Monstrous Perfectibility: Ape-Human Transformations in Hobbes, Bulwer, Tyson




The Economy of Nymphomania: Luxury, Virtue, Sentiment and Desire in Mid-Eighteenth Century Medical Discourse



Index