| Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History Revised Edition Contributor(s): Ham, Jennifer (Editor), Senior, Matthew (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415916100 ISBN-13: 9780415916103 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: Animals Acts is a pioneering collection of essays that defines a new field of inquiry--the real and imaginary acts that humans perform with and as animals to define themselves as humans. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 128 |
| LCCN: 96-38517 |
| Series: Political Thought; 5 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.14" W x 9.02" (0.83 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Animal Acts records the history of the fluctuating boundary between animals and humans as expressed in literary, philosophical and scientific texts, as well as visual arts and historical practices such as dissection, circus acts, the hunt and zoos. The essays document a persistent return of animality, a becoming animal that has always existed within and at the margins of Western Culture from the Middle Ages to the present. |