The Enlightenment's Animals
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The Enlightenment's Animals

Changing Conceptions of Animals in the Long Eighteenth Century

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The Enlightenment's Animals

Changing Conceptions of Animals in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9789048539321
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Early Modern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I. Animal Experimentation
  5. 1. Animal Experimentation and Ethics in the Early Modern Era
  6. 2. Christiaan Huygens and Animal Experimentation
  7. Part II. From Philosophy to Historiography in the Enlightenment
  8. 3. The Turkish Spy and Eighteenth-Century British Theriophily
  9. 4. Rousseau and Animals
  10. 5. William Smellie and the Enlightenment Critique of Anthropocentrism
  11. 6. John Gregory and Scottish Enlightenment Views of Animals
  12. 7. Buffon, Crèvecoeur, and the Limits of Enlightenment Sensitivity to Animal Suffering
  13. 8. Animals in Enlightenment Historical Literature
  14. Part III. Art and Economics
  15. 9. Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Paintings of Dead Animals and Changing Perceptions of Animals
  16. 10. Adam Smith and the Economic Consideration of Animals
  17. 11. From Symbols to Commodities : The Economization of Animals in the Transition to Modernity
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index