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Transitions and borders between animals, humans, and machines, 1600-1800 /
The search for a new foundation of the order of things, that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant, is closely related to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine? The various answers that have been given to the questions occur in a field of dynamic intera...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The search for a new foundation of the order of things, that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant, is closely related to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine? The various answers that have been given to the questions occur in a field of dynamic interactions between theories of knowledge and of matter, experiments, observations, moral, theological and scientific claims, analogies, metaphors, imitations, and specific objects or artifacts. The main objective of this book is to retrace these interactions within different disciplinary, methodological. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004191815 900419181X 9789004194182 9004194185 1283160978 9781283160971 9786613160973 6613160970 |