An intellectual history of cannibalism / Cǎtǎlin Avramescu ; translated by Alistair Ian Blyth.

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Avramescu, Cătălin, 1967- [author.]

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9781400833207
1400833205

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Filozoful crud. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Intellectual history of cannibalism.DDC classification:

394/.9/09 23

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GN409 .A8713 2009eb

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Contents:

A Hobbesian life raft -- The tortures and fate of the body -- Creatures of evil -- The conquest of the savages -- The predicaments of identity -- A question of taste -- The anthropophagus in the city -- The agent of absolute cruelty.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index.

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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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