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Cruel delight : enlightenment culture and the inhuman / James A. Steintrager.
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View onlineVan Pelt Library BJ1535.C7 S84 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steintrager, James A., 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cruelty--History--18th century.
- Cruelty.
- Enlightenment.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- The model of moral monstrosity
- The paradox of inhumanity
- Animals and the mark of the human
- The monstrous face of curiosity
- Science and insensibility
- The ethics and aesthetics of human vivisection.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253343674
- 0253216494
- OCLC:
- 52271610
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