The human animal in Western art and science
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The human animal in Western art and science
(The Louise Smith Bross lecture series)
University of Chicago Press, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction: facing up to ourselves
- Humors, temperaments, and signs
- Fixing the signs
- Feelings and faces
- Souls and machines
- From meaning to mechanism
- Fable and fact: La Fontaine and Buffon
- Going ape
- Beastly boys and admirable animals
- Our animal cousins
- Art and atavism
- A literary-cinematic postscript