Intellectual History of Cannibalism

Name: Intellectual History of Cannibalism
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ISBN: 9780691152196

ISBN-10: 0691152195

ISBN-13: 9780691152196

Edition: 2009

Authors: CÄƒtÄƒlin Avramescu, Alistair Ian Blyth

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The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked travelers eating each other. An Intellectual History of Cannibalismis the first book to systematically examine the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers, from the classical period to modern disputes about such wide-ranging issues as vegetarianism and the right to private property. Catalin Avramescu shows how the cannibal is, before anything else, a theoretical creature, one…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.21" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Alistair Ian Blyth's translations from Romanian include the novel Little Fingers by Filip Florian and An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Ctlin Avramescu.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Hobbesian Life Raft



The Tortures and Fate of the Body



Creatures of Evil



The Conquest of the Savages



The Predicaments of Identity



A Question of Taste



The Anthropophagus in the City



The Agent of Absolute Cruelty


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index