Transitions and borders between animals, humans, and machines, 1600-1800 /:

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 intera...

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Weitere Verfasser: Cheung, Tobias
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
German
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004191815
900419181X
9789004194182
9004194185
1283160978
9781283160971
9786613160973
6613160970

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