Mark S. Roberts

Mark of Beast: Animality and Human Oppression

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The Mark of the Beast historically and critically examines the dire affects of the process of animalization on both humans and animals. Roberts provides a general account of the theoretical division between humans and animals begun largely in the work of Aristotle and continued in that of Descartes and Kant. Following the philosophical provenance of the idea of ???animality, ??? Roberts explores the practical and scientific uses of this idea, focusing largely on what Stephen J. Gould terms the biodeterministic tradition by evaluating the primarily ninteenth century theories of atavism, craniology, recapitulation, and so on, while also explori… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-55753-474-3
EAN: 9781557534743
Produktnummer: 3292016
Verlag: Purdue Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 217 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.5 cm 376 g
Gewicht: 376

Über den Autor

Mark S. Roberts is a member of the Department of Philosophy at Suffolk County Community College in New York. He has written numerous works in areas of contemporary French thought, psychology, aesthetics, philosophy of medicine, and media studies.