Examines historically and critically the dire affects of the process of animalization on both humans and animals. Following the philosophical provenance of the idea of "animality", this work explores the practical and "scientific" uses of this idea, focusing largely on what Stephen J Gould terms the "biodeterministic tradition". Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 378. . 2008. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Mark of the Beast: Animality and Human Oppression (New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond)
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1557534748
ISBN 13: 9781557534743
Binding: Soft cover
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The Mark of the Beast historically and critically examines the dire effects of the process of animalization on both humans and animals. Roberts provides a general account of the theoretical division between humans and animals begun largely in the work of Aristotle and continued in that of Descartes and Kant. Following the philosophical provenance of the idea of animality, Roberts explores the practical and "scientific" uses of this idea, focusing largely on what Stephen J. Gould terms the "biodeterministic tradition" by evaluating the primarily ninteenth century theories of atavism, craniology, recapitulation, and so on, while also exploring the use of medical and psychological techniques of animalization.

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Mark S. Roberts is a member of the Department of Philosophy at Suffolk County Community College in New York. He has written numerous works in areas of contemporary French thought, psychology, aesthetics, philosophy of medicine, and media studies.

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