Transitions and Borders Between Animals, Humans and Machines 1600-1800 - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Charles T. Wolfe, Ann Thomson, Hanns-Peter NeumannTheme:Aspects (Academic)/Anthropological, Chronological Period/18th Century, Chronological Period/19th CenturyPublish date:10/15/2010Pages:202
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004191815ISBN-10:900419181XUPC:9789004191815Book Category:Science, Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Movements, EuropeBook Topic:HumanismSize:9.50 x 6.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.499Product ID:SCVF6VT6M9
The search for a new foundation of the order of things, that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant, is closely related to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine? The various answers that have been given to the questions occur in a field of dynamic interactions between theories of knowledge and of matter, experiments, observations, moral, theological and scientific claims, analogies, metaphors, imitations, and specific objects or artifacts. The main objective of this book is to retrace these interactions within different disciplinary, methodological and conceptual perspectives that reach from soul-body debates to models of organic molecules, fibre bodies and self-regulating clocks.
Contributors are Tobias Cheung, Charles T. Wolfe, Ann Thomson, Hanns-Peter Neumann and Yvonne Wübben.
Originally published as Volume XV, Nos. 1-2 (2010) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine.
Contributors are Tobias Cheung, Charles T. Wolfe, Ann Thomson, Hanns-Peter Neumann and Yvonne Wübben.
Originally published as Volume XV, Nos. 1-2 (2010) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004191815ISBN-10:900419181XUPC:9789004191815Book Category:Science, Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Movements, EuropeBook Topic:HumanismSize:9.50 x 6.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.499Product ID:SCVF6VT6M9
Tobias Cheung, Ph.D. (1999, Technische Universität München), is Heisenberg-scholar and Privatdozent at the Institute for Cultural Sciences at the Humboldt-University and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (Berlin). He has published extensively in the history of the life sciences, including Res vivens. Agentenmodelle organischer Ordnung 1600-1800 (2008).
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