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At the Borders of the Human

Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period

Susan Wiseman editor Ruth Gilbert editor Erica Fudge editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:18th Dec '99

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What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. The development of Renaissance technologies of difference such as mapping, colonialism and anatomy paradoxically also illuminated the similarities between human and non-human. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others: animals, women, native subjects, machines. It examines border creatures (hermaphrodites, wildmen and cyborgs) and border practices (science, surveying and pornography).

'all [the essays] are lively and original, and offer new perspectives on a provocative and... inexhaustible subject' - Eileen Reeves, Renaissance Quarterly

'The essays...open up [a] neglected aspect of our cultural history' - David Salter, Cahiers Elizabéthains

ISBN: 9781349277315

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269 pages

1st ed. 1999