The Enlightenment's Animals : : Changing Conceptions of Animals in the Long Eighteenth Century / / Nathaniel Wolloch.

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• VerfasserIn: Wolloch, Nathaniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

In The Enlightenment's Animals Nathaniel Wolloch takes a broad interdisciplinary view of changing conceptions of animals in European culture during the long eighteenth century. Combining discussions of intellectual history, the history of science, the history of historiography, the history of e...

Table of Contents

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