Perceiving animals: humans and beasts in early modern english culture
Auteur :
NA, NA
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349624171
Date de publication :
31 déc. 1999
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.