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An intellectual history of cannibalism /
The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecke...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Romanian |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked travelers eating each other. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism is the first book to systematically examine the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers, from the classical period to modern disputes about such wide-ranging issues as vegetarianism and the right to private. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400833207 1400833205 |