The Enlightenment's animals : changing conceptions of animals in the long eighteenth century / Nathaniel Wolloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolloch, Nathaniel, author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships--History--18th century.

Human-animal relationships.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Animal Experimentation

1 Animal Experimentation and Ethics in the Early Modern Era p. 27

2 Christiaan Huygens and Animal Experimentation p. 37

Part II From Philsosophy to Historiography in the Enlightenment

3 The Turkish Spy and Eighteenth-Century British Theriophily p. 49

4 Rousseau and Animals p. 63

5 William Smellie and the Enlightenment Critique of Anthropocentrism p. 71

6 John Gregory and Scottish Enlightenment Views of Animals p. 89

7 Buffon, Crèvecoeur, and the Limits of Enlightenment Sensitivity to Animal-Suffering p. 105

8 Animals in Enlightenment Historical Literature p. 113

Part III Art and Economics

9 Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Paintings of Dead Animals and Changing Perceptions of Animals p. 135

10 Adam Smith and the Economic Consideration of Animals p. 161

11 From Symbols to Commodities: The Economization of Animals in the Transition to Modernity p. 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789048539321

9048539323

Publisher Number:

40028931344

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Restricted for use by site license.