| Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History Contributor(s): Ham, Jennifer (Editor), Senior, Matthew (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415916097 ISBN-13: 9780415916097 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - History |
| Dewey: 128 |
| LCCN: 96038517 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.16" W x 9.3" (1.22 lbs) 270 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. |