Author: Ham, Jennifer & Senior, Matthew; editors:
Title: Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History
Description: New York / London, Routledge, (1997). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xi, 258 pp. Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contains 12 papers. Includes: J.E. Salisbury "Human Beasts & Bestial Humans in the Middle Ages"; G.B. Stone "The Philosophical Beast: On Boccacio's Tale of Cimone"; T. Conley "Pantagruel-Animal"; M. Senior " ' When the Beasts Spoke': Animal Speech & Classical Reason in Descartes & La Fontaine"; M.-H. Huet "Revolutionary Monsters"; J.W. Armstrong "Audubon's 'Ornithological Biography' & the Question of 'Other Minds' "; M. Scholtmeijer "What is 'Human'? Metaphysics & Zoontology in Flaubert and Kafka"; J. Ham "Taming the Beast: Animality in Wedekind & Nietzsche"; D. Clark "On Being 'The Last Kantian in Nazi Germany': Dwelling with Animals After Levinas"; P.H. Fry "Animal Speech: Active Verbs, & Material Being in E.B. White"; K. Armbruster "'Surely, God, These Are My Kin': The Dynamics of Identity & Advocacy in the Life & Works of Dian Fossey"; C.D. Minaken " Humanimals & Anihumans in Gary Larson's Gallery of the Absurd".

Keywords: Philosophical Anthropology, Human Beings, Animal Nature, Philosophy, Literary History, Criticism, Critical Theory, Literature,