Transitions and borders between animals, humans, and machines, 1600-1800 / / edited by Tobias Cheung.
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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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill eBook titles 2011
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
| Notes: | "Originally published as volume XV, nos. 1-2 (2010) of Brill's journal, Early science and medicine"--T.p. verso. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / T. Cheung
- Transitions And Borders Between Animals, Humans And Machines,1600-1800: Introduction / Tobias Cheung
- Animals, Humans, Machines And Thinking Matter, 1690-1707 / Ann Thomson
- Endowed Molecules And Emergent Organization: The Maupertuis-Diderot Debate / Charles T. Wolfe
- Omnis Fibra Ex Fibra: Fibre Economies In Bonnet’s And Diderot’s Models Of Organic Order / Tobias Cheung
- Transhumane Physiologie. Bilder und Praktiken des Reflexes (Thomas Willis, Robert Whytt, Marshall Hall) / Yvonne Wübben
- Machina Machinarum. Die Uhr Als Begriff Und Metapher Zwischen1450 Und 1750 / Hanns-Peter Neumann
- Index / T. Cheung.