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Book Title: Transitions and Borders between Animals, Humans and Machines 1600-1800 Book Author: Tobias Cheung (Author) Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: BRILL (5 Mar 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 900419181X ISBN-13: 978-9004191815 Book Description The search for a new foundation of the order of things, that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant, is closely related to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine? The various answers that have been given to the questions occur in a field of dynamic interactions between theories of knowledge and of matter, experiments, observations, moral, theological and scientific claims, analogies, metaphors, imitations, and specific objects or artifacts. The main objective of this book is to retrace these interactions within different disciplinary, methodological and conceptual perspectives that reach from soul-body debates to models of organic molecules, fibre bodies and self-regulating clocks. Contributors are Tobias Cheung, Charles T. Wolfe, Ann Thomson, Hanns-Peter Neumann and Yvonne Wübben. Originally published as Volume XV, Nos. 1-2 (2010) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine.  About the Author/Editor Tobias Cheung, Ph.D. (1999, Technische Universität München), is Heisenberg-scholar and Privatdozent at the Institute for Cultural Sciences at the Humboldt-University and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (Berlin). He has published extensively in the history of the life sciences, including Res vivens. Agentenmodelle organischer Ordnung 1600-1800 (2008). Readership All those interested in intellectual history, cultural history, history of science, philosophy and theology. Table of contents Transitions and Borders between Animals, Humans and Machines 1600-1800: Introduction, Tobias Cheung Animals, Humans, Machines and Thinking Matter, 1690-1707, Ann Thomson Endowed Molecules and Emergent Organization: The Maupertuis-Diderot Debate, Charles T. Wolfe Omnis Fibra Ex Fibra: Fibre OEconomies in Bonnet’s and Diderot’s Models of Organic Order, Tobias Cheung Transhumane Physiologie. Bilder und Praktiken des Reflexes (Thomas Willis, Robert Whytt, Marshall Hall), Yvonne Wübben Machina Machinarum. Die Uhr als Begriff und Metapher zwischen 1450 und 1750, Hanns-Peter Neumann Sharing Widget |