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Author FUDGE, ERICA

Title BRUTAL REASONING : animals, rationality, and humanity in early modern england
Published [Place of publication not identified] : CORNELL University Press, 2019

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Contents Brutal Reasoning; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Being Human; 2. Becoming Human; 3. Becoming Animal; 4. Being Animal; 5. A Reasonable Animal?; 6. A Reasonable Human?; Conclusion: Brutal Reasoning; Primary Materials; Note on Secondary Sources; Index
Summary Brutal Reasoning looks at the ways in which humans were conceptualized, at what being ""human"" meant, and at how humans could lose their humanity
Subject Philosophical anthropology -- England -- History
Animals (Philosophy) -- England -- History
Philosophy, English -- History
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Animals (Philosophy)
Philosophical anthropology
Philosophy, English
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501727191
1501727192