Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England

by Erica Fudge

Book Overview

Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous declaration of the automatism of animals. But as Erica Fudge relates in Brutal Reasoning, the discussions were not as straightforward--or as reflexively anthropocentric--as has been assumed.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801444543
• ISBN13: 9780801444548
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher