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Transitions and Borders between Animals, Humans and Machines 1600-1800 - Hardcover

Tobias Cheung

 
9789004191815: Transitions and Borders between Animals, Humans and Machines 1600-1800

Synopsis

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).

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