At the Borders of the Human
Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
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Beschreibung
What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. The development of Renaissance technologies of difference such as mapping, colonialism and anatomy paradoxically also illuminated the similarities between human and non-human. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others: animals, women, native subjects, machines. It examines border creatures (hermaphrodites, wildmen and cyborgs) and border practices (science, surveying and pornography).
Autor*in
Susan Wiseman
Themen in »At the Borders of the Human«
America animals colonialism discourse economy Erasmus of Rotterdam Europe event mathematics metaphor peace Renaissance science Thomas Hobbes tragedy
Stimmen zu »At the Borders of the Human«
'all [the essays] are lively and original, and offer new perspectives on a provocative and... inexhaustible subject' - Eileen Reeves, Renaissance Quarterly
'The essays...open up [a] neglected aspect of our cultural history' - David Salter, Cahiers Elizabéthains
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