Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English CultureSpringer, 30 квіт. 2016 р. - 232 стор. When we look at the human understanding of beasts in the past what we see are not only the foundations of our own perception of animals but humans contemplating their own status. Perceiving Animals argues that what is revealed in a wide range of writing from the early modern period is a recurring attempt to separate the human from the beast. Looking at the representation of the animal in law, religious writings, literary representation, science and political ideas, what emerges is a sense of the fragility of humanity, a sense of a species which always requires an external addition - property, civilisation, education, mastery of the natural world - to be fully human. Erica Fudge engages with both canonical and non-canonical texts from the period 1558-1649, and examines previously unchallenged aspects of the status of humanity: what does it mean to own an animal? How does civilisation take place, and what does this tell us about uncivilised man? What does the humanist emphasis on education mean for the uneducated? Does science ever offer humanity separation from the beast? Texts by writers including Edward Coke, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and Richard Overton are re-examined, and the status of humanity comes under question. Perceiving Animals argues that within early modern English culture there is an uncomfortable sense of humanity with a superiority which is not innate, but dangerously unnatural. |
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... natural world in ' To Penshurst ' offers an image of unmitigated and unquestioned human dominion . In his panegyric the benificence of the householder , Sir Robert Sidney , Viscount Lisle , is paralleled in his power over the natural ...
... natural world in ' To Penshurst ' offers an image of unmitigated and unquestioned human dominion . In his panegyric the benificence of the householder , Sir Robert Sidney , Viscount Lisle , is paralleled in his power over the natural ...
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... natural world . Animals represent human power : their self - sacrifice is an image of man's control . The poems are not about animals but are , in part , about the human sense of what an animal should be . For this reason the ideas ...
... natural world . Animals represent human power : their self - sacrifice is an image of man's control . The poems are not about animals but are , in part , about the human sense of what an animal should be . For this reason the ideas ...
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... nature with it.12 The ' Idols of the Tribe ' , as these anthropomorphisms are called , are natural to the human mind and therefore impossible to dismiss . Humans will always place themselves at the centre of ' their ' world ...
... nature with it.12 The ' Idols of the Tribe ' , as these anthropomorphisms are called , are natural to the human mind and therefore impossible to dismiss . Humans will always place themselves at the centre of ' their ' world ...
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... world view . In seeing the world as shaped like a man we can ' distinguish no part ' , all we can do is fab- ricate meanings : the earthquake is a name given to the unknowable disruption of the natural order , is the human ' excuse ...
... world view . In seeing the world as shaped like a man we can ' distinguish no part ' , all we can do is fab- ricate meanings : the earthquake is a name given to the unknowable disruption of the natural order , is the human ' excuse ...
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... Natural Rights ' . Writing of his experience in Camp 1492 Levinas recalls that he and his fellow Jews were ... world in our own image - and anthro- pomorphism allows for the animalisation of humans then anthropocentrism paradoxically ...
... Natural Rights ' . Writing of his experience in Camp 1492 Levinas recalls that he and his fellow Jews were ... world in our own image - and anthro- pomorphism allows for the animalisation of humans then anthropocentrism paradoxically ...
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Animals | 34 |
The Humanist Interpretation | 64 |
Science Animal | 91 |
Knowing Animals and the Law | 115 |
The Bestialisation of Humanity and the Salvation | 143 |
Return to the Bear Garden | 167 |
Bibliography | 210 |
Index | 226 |
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