Transitions and Borders Between Animals, Humans and Machines 1600-1800

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-19181-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wolfe, Charles T.

Thomson, Ann

Neumann, Hanns-Peter

Wübben, Yvonne

Cheung, Tobias

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Refl exes (Thomas Willis, Robert Whytt, Marshall Hall), Yvonne Wübben
Machina Machinarum. Die Uhr als Begriff und Metapher zwischen 1450 und 1750, Hanns-Peter Neumann

Über Autor(innen)

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).