The Enlightenment's Animals

The Enlightenment's Animals
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Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9789048539321
ISBN-13 : 9048539323
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Book Synopsis The Enlightenment's Animals by : Nathaniel Wolloch

Download or read book The Enlightenment's Animals written by Nathaniel Wolloch and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Enlightenment's Animals Nathaniel Wolloch takes a broad interdisciplinary view of changing conceptions of animals in European culture during the long eighteenth century. Combining discussions of intellectual history, the history of science, the history of historiography, the history of economic thought, and, not least, art history, this book describes how the way animals were discussed and conceived in different intellectual and artistic contexts underwent a dramatic shift during this period. While in the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century the main focus was on the sensory and cognitive characteristics of animals, during the late Enlightenment a new outlook emerged, emphasizing their conception as economic resources. Focusing particularly on seventeenth-century Dutch culture, and on the Scottish Enlightenment, Wolloch discusses developments in other countries as well, presenting a new look at a topic of increasing importance in modern scholarship.


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