This book gives an overview of attitudes toward animals in the long eighteenth century from an interdisciplinary perspective combining intellectual history and art history, and presents a new interpretation of changing attitudes toward animals during this period.
Nathaniel Wolloch is an independent scholar from Israel.
Innehållsförteckning
List of Illustrations, 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.
