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Cruel delight : enlightenment culture and the inhuman /
Cruel Investigation investigates the fascination with joyful malice in 18th-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. James A. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The inhuman
- The model of moral monstrosity
- The paradox of inhumanity
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Animals and the mark of the human
- The monstrous face of curiosity
- The bedside manner of the Marquis de Sade
- Science and insensibility
- The ethics and aesthetics of human vivisection.