{"product_id":"brutal-reasoning-animals-rationality-and-humanity-in-early-modern-england-9781501730870","title":"Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarly modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on the Method\u003c\/i\u003e (1637) and its famous declaration of the automatism of animals. But as Erica Fudge relates in \u003ci\u003eBrutal Reasoning\u003c\/i\u003e, the discussions were not as straightforward--or as reflexively anthropocentric--as has been assumed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurveying a wide range of texts-religious, philosophical, literary, even comic-Fudge explains the crucial role that reason played in conceptualizations of the human and the animal, as well as the distinctions between the two. \u003ci\u003eBrutal Reasoning\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the ways in which humans were conceptualized, at what being \"human\" meant, and at how humans could lose their humanity. It also takes up the questions of what made an animal an animal, why animals were studied in the early modern period, and at how people understood, and misunderstood, what they saw when they did look.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the influence of classical thinking on the human-animal divide and debates surrounding the rationality of women, children, and Native Americans to the frequent references in popular and pedagogical texts to Morocco the Intelligent Horse, Fudge gives a new and vital context to the human perception of animals in this period. At the same time, she challenges overly simplistic notions about early modern attitudes to animals and about the impact of those attitudes on modern culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erica Fudge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501730870","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440531902601,"sku":"9781501730870","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_dc80359c-0f8d-4755-9511-9dc0e8106ced.jpg?v=1716238933","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/brutal-reasoning-animals-rationality-and-humanity-in-early-modern-england-9781501730870","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}