Format:
XI, 258 S
,
Ill
,
23 cm
ISBN:
0415916097
,
0415916100
Content:
Human beasts and bestial humans in the Middle Ages / Joyce E. Salisbury -- The philosophical beast: on Boccaccio's tale of Cimone / Gregory B. Stone -- Pantagruel-animal / Tom Conley -- 'When the beasts spoke': animal speech and classical reason in Descartes and La Fontaine / Matthew Senior -- Revolutionary monsters / Marie-Helene Huet -- Audubon's Ornithological biography and the question of 'other minds' / James W. Armstrong -- What is 'human'? Metaphysics and zoontology in Flaubert and Kafka / Marian Scholtmeijer -- Taming the beast: animality in Wedekind and Nietzsche / Jennifer Ham -- On being 'the last Kantian in Nazi Germany': dwelling with animals after Levinas / David Clark -- Animal speech, active verbs, and material being in E.B. White / Paul H. Fry -- 'Surely, God, these are my kin': the dynamics of identity and advocacy in the life and works of Dian Fossey / Karla Armbruster -- Humanimals and anihumans in Gary Larson's gallery of the absurd / Charles D. Minahen
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Human beasts and bestial humans in the Middle Ages / Joyce E. Salisbury -- The philosophical beast: on Boccaccio's tale of Cimone / Gregory B. Stone -- Pantagruel-animal / Tom Conley -- 'When the beasts spoke': animal speech and classical reason in Descartes and La Fontaine / Matthew Senior -- Revolutionary monsters / Marie-Helene Huet -- Audubon's Ornithological biography and the question of 'other minds' / James W. Armstrong -- What is 'human'? Metaphysics and zoontology in Flaubert and Kafka / Marian Scholtmeijer -- Taming the beast: animality in Wedekind and Nietzsche / Jennifer Ham -- On being 'the last Kantian in Nazi Germany': dwelling with animals after Levinas / David Clark -- Animal speech, active verbs, and material being in E.B. White / Paul H. Fry -- 'Surely, God, these are my kin': the dynamics of identity and advocacy in the life and works of Dian Fossey / Karla Armbruster -- Humanimals and anihumans in Gary Larson's gallery of the absurd / Charles D. Minahen.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Unmensch
;
Philosophische Anthropologie
;
Unmensch
;
Literatur
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/96038517-d.html
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