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Transitions and Borders between Animals, Humans and Machines 1600-1800
Author(s): Tobias Cheung (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 5 Mar. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 900419181X
- ISBN-13: 9789004191815
Book Description
Drawing on natural history, theology and philosophy, this book retraces the shifting foundations of the order of things that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant with respect to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine?
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About the Author
Tobias Cheung, Ph.D. (1999, Technische Universität München), is Heisenberg-scholar and Privatdozent at the Institute for Cultural Sciences at the Humboldt-University and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (Berlin). He has published extensively in the history of the life sciences, including Res vivens. Agentenmodelle organischer Ordnung 1600-1800 (2008).
