ISBN:
9789048539321
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (249 pages)
DDC:
304.2709
Keywords:
Human-animal relationships-History-18th century.
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Human-animal relationships-History-18th century
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Animals and civilization
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Animal Experimentation -- 1. Animal Experimentation and Ethics in the Early Modern Era -- 2. Christiaan Huygens and Animal Experimentation -- Part II. From Philosophy to Historiography in the Enlightenment -- 3. The Turkish Spy and Eighteenth-Century British Theriophily -- 4. Rousseau and Animals -- 5. William Smellie and the Enlightenment Critique of Anthropocentrism -- 6. John Gregory and Scottish Enlightenment Views of Animals -- 7. Buffon, Crèvecoeur, and the Limits of Enlightenment Sensitivity to Animal Suffering -- 8. Animals in Enlightenment Historical Literature -- Part III. Art and Economics -- 9. Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Paintings of Dead Animals and Changing Perceptions of Animals -- 10. Adam Smith and the Economic Consideration of Animals -- 11. From Symbols to Commodities: The Economization of Animals in the Transition to Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Illustrations.
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