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9781557534743 Academic Inspection Copy

The Mark of the Beast

Animality and Human Oppression
  • ISBN-13: 9781557534743
  • Publisher: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Mark Roberts
  • Price: AUD $76.99
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  • Local release date: 28/08/2008
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 230 pages Weight: 382g
  • Categories: Philosophy [HP]
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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.
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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