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Ars Aeterna : literary studies and humanity
| Ars Aeterna : literary studies and humanity |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Warsaw, Poland : , : DE GRUYTER OPEN |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature - History and criticism
Humanity in literature Literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Periodicals. |
| Soggetto non controllato | Literature - General |
| ISSN | 2450-8497 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Literary studies and humanity |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910257349703321 |
| Warsaw, Poland : , : DE GRUYTER OPEN | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The edge of evolution : animality, inhumanity, and the island of Doctor Moreau / / Ronald Edwards
| The edge of evolution : animality, inhumanity, and the island of Doctor Moreau / / Ronald Edwards |
| Autore | Edwards Ronald <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.912 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature and science
Animals in literature Humanity in literature Ethics in literature Evolution (Biology) in literature Biology in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-19-021210-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461001303321 |
Edwards Ronald <1964->
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The edge of evolution : animality, inhumanity, and the island of Doctor Moreau / / Ronald Edwards
| The edge of evolution : animality, inhumanity, and the island of Doctor Moreau / / Ronald Edwards |
| Autore | Edwards Ronald <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.912 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature and science
Animals in literature Humanity in literature Ethics in literature Evolution (Biology) in literature Biology in literature |
| ISBN |
0-19-021211-X
0-19-021210-1 |
| Classificazione | SCI070000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- PART ONE: NOT MEANT TO KNOW -- Chapter 1: The Paw -- Taking exception / Science and fiction / Science fiction -- Chapter 2: The Ism that Wasn't -- It does not please you / Darwin in the middle / Two windows -- Chapter 3: Don't Meddle -- Movies and Moreau / Sorcery / Life science -- PART TWO: THE THING IS AN ABOMINATION -- Chapter 4: The House of Pain -- No pain, no gain / Moreau 1, Prendick 0 / Pain is real -- Chapter 5: Into the Lab and Onto the Slab -- In the book / How / But why -- PART THREE: POOR BEASTS -- Chapter 6: All the Difference -- Moreau's Man / Prendick's gaze / "No!" / The virago -- Chapter 7: To the Beasts You May Go -- No threshold / Selection and its discontents / The Valley -- PART FOUR: NO ESCAPE -- Chapter 8: That is the Law -- Whose Law? / Hell is real / The Jesus moment / The rebel -- Chapter 9: Beast Monsters -- The taste of blood / The stubborn beast flesh / The horror -- Chapter 10: Big Thinks -- Suffering and philosophy / Science and humanity. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797965803321 |
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Edwards Ronald <1964->
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The edge of evolution : animality, inhumanity, and the island of Doctor Moreau / / Ronald Edwards
| The edge of evolution : animality, inhumanity, and the island of Doctor Moreau / / Ronald Edwards |
| Autore | Edwards Ronald <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.912 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature and science
Animals in literature Humanity in literature Ethics in literature Evolution (Biology) in literature Biology in literature |
| ISBN |
0-19-021211-X
0-19-021210-1 |
| Classificazione | SCI070000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- PART ONE: NOT MEANT TO KNOW -- Chapter 1: The Paw -- Taking exception / Science and fiction / Science fiction -- Chapter 2: The Ism that Wasn't -- It does not please you / Darwin in the middle / Two windows -- Chapter 3: Don't Meddle -- Movies and Moreau / Sorcery / Life science -- PART TWO: THE THING IS AN ABOMINATION -- Chapter 4: The House of Pain -- No pain, no gain / Moreau 1, Prendick 0 / Pain is real -- Chapter 5: Into the Lab and Onto the Slab -- In the book / How / But why -- PART THREE: POOR BEASTS -- Chapter 6: All the Difference -- Moreau's Man / Prendick's gaze / "No!" / The virago -- Chapter 7: To the Beasts You May Go -- No threshold / Selection and its discontents / The Valley -- PART FOUR: NO ESCAPE -- Chapter 8: That is the Law -- Whose Law? / Hell is real / The Jesus moment / The rebel -- Chapter 9: Beast Monsters -- The taste of blood / The stubborn beast flesh / The horror -- Chapter 10: Big Thinks -- Suffering and philosophy / Science and humanity. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814333903321 |
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Edwards Ronald <1964->
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| New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In search of humanity : essays in honor of Clifford Orwin / / edited by Andrea Radasanu
| In search of humanity : essays in honor of Clifford Orwin / / edited by Andrea Radasanu |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (563 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.01 |
| Soggetto topico |
Humanity
Humanity in literature Human behavior Human behavior in literature |
| ISBN |
1-4985-1324-7
0-7391-8417-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction; Part I: Ancient Inquiries into Humanity; 1 Civilization and the Gods in the Eumenides; 2 Philosophy and "Humanity"; 3 Preliminary Observations on the Treaties in Thucydides' Work; 4 Reflections on the Humanity (and Inhumanity) of Thucydides; 5 The Spartan Alcibiades; 6 The Tragedy of Demosthenes in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War; 7 Moral Indignation, Magnanimity, and Philosophy in the Trial of the Armenian King; 8 Humanity and Divinity in Xenophon's Defense of Socrates; 9 Education after Freedom
Part II: The Taming of Mother Teresa: From Charity to Modern Visions of Humanity10 Martin Luther King, Augustine, and Civil Disobedience; 11 "La Carità Propria" and the Uncertain Foundations of Unarmed Principalities; 12 Machiavelli's Humanity; 13 "Choice of Loss"; 14 "When Vice Makes Mercy"; 15 "'Tis Charity to Show"; 16 New Virtue for Masters of Nature; 17 The Model of Human Nature and the Revision of Premises in Spinoza's Ethics; 18 Interpreting Honor Politically; Part III: Compassion and the Angst of Late Modernity; 19 Locke's Compassion-and Rousseau's; 20 Rousseau's Rome 21 Rousseau and the Case For and Against Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism22 Hegel as Educator; 23 Reason, Will, and the Image of Humanity; 24 Is It Possible to Reconcile Reason and Revelation?; 25 History, Technology, and Justice; 26 "Gods of Vengeance and Compassion"; Part IV: Liberalism, Humanitarianism, and Contemporary Affairs; 27 Character vs. Free Will; 28 "More [Than] Human"; 29 On the Uses and Abuses of the Notion of Sovereignty; 30 Europe's Democratic Odyssey; 31 Humane Warfare; 32 A Polemic for Pedagogy?; Index; About the Editor and Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788146803321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In search of humanity : essays in honor of Clifford Orwin / / edited by Andrea Radasanu
| In search of humanity : essays in honor of Clifford Orwin / / edited by Andrea Radasanu |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (563 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.01 |
| Soggetto topico |
Humanity
Humanity in literature Human behavior Human behavior in literature |
| ISBN |
1-4985-1324-7
0-7391-8417-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction; Part I: Ancient Inquiries into Humanity; 1 Civilization and the Gods in the Eumenides; 2 Philosophy and "Humanity"; 3 Preliminary Observations on the Treaties in Thucydides' Work; 4 Reflections on the Humanity (and Inhumanity) of Thucydides; 5 The Spartan Alcibiades; 6 The Tragedy of Demosthenes in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War; 7 Moral Indignation, Magnanimity, and Philosophy in the Trial of the Armenian King; 8 Humanity and Divinity in Xenophon's Defense of Socrates; 9 Education after Freedom
Part II: The Taming of Mother Teresa: From Charity to Modern Visions of Humanity10 Martin Luther King, Augustine, and Civil Disobedience; 11 "La Carità Propria" and the Uncertain Foundations of Unarmed Principalities; 12 Machiavelli's Humanity; 13 "Choice of Loss"; 14 "When Vice Makes Mercy"; 15 "'Tis Charity to Show"; 16 New Virtue for Masters of Nature; 17 The Model of Human Nature and the Revision of Premises in Spinoza's Ethics; 18 Interpreting Honor Politically; Part III: Compassion and the Angst of Late Modernity; 19 Locke's Compassion-and Rousseau's; 20 Rousseau's Rome 21 Rousseau and the Case For and Against Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism22 Hegel as Educator; 23 Reason, Will, and the Image of Humanity; 24 Is It Possible to Reconcile Reason and Revelation?; 25 History, Technology, and Justice; 26 "Gods of Vengeance and Compassion"; Part IV: Liberalism, Humanitarianism, and Contemporary Affairs; 27 Character vs. Free Will; 28 "More [Than] Human"; 29 On the Uses and Abuses of the Notion of Sovereignty; 30 Europe's Democratic Odyssey; 31 Humane Warfare; 32 A Polemic for Pedagogy?; Index; About the Editor and Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819575403321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Primo Levi's narratives of embodiment : containing the human / / Charlotte Ross
| Primo Levi's narratives of embodiment : containing the human / / Charlotte Ross |
| Autore | Ross Charlotte <1974-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina | 853/.914 |
| Collana | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Holocaust survivors' writings - History and criticism
Human body in literature Mind and body in literature Humanity in literature Technology in literature Human body (Philosophy) |
| ISBN |
1-136-86884-4
1-136-86885-2 1-282-88584-7 9786612885846 0-203-83719-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Abbreviations and Translations; Note on Terminology; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Ontologies and Epistemologies; 1 Containers and Their Contents; 2 Embodying (In/Non-)Humanity; 3 Embodied Knowledges and Epistemological Dualism; Part II: Bodily Modifications and Mutations; Foreword: Thinking of the Future: Science Fiction; 4 Bodies, Prostheses and Sentient Technologies; 5 Bureaucratized and Technologized Bodies; 6 Close Couplings and Docile Bodies; 7 Recombining the Organic Human Body; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910511509903321 |
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Ross Charlotte <1974->
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| New York, : Routledge, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Universes without us : posthuman cosmologies in American literature / / Matthew A. Taylor
| Universes without us : posthuman cosmologies in American literature / / Matthew A. Taylor |
| Autore | Taylor Matthew A. <1978-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/384 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cosmology in literature
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Humanity in literature Human beings in literature Self in literature Order (Philosophy) in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4529-4051-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Immortal Post-Mortems -- 1. Edgar Allan Poe's Meta/Physics -- 2. Henry Adams's Half-Life: The Science of Autobiography -- 3. "By an Act of Self-Creation": On Becoming Human in America -- 4. Hoodoo You Think You Are?: Self-Conjuration in Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman -- 5. "It Might Be the Death of You": Hurston's Voodoo Ethnography -- Coda: "The Cosmo-Political Party" -- Notes -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463965903321 |
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Taylor Matthew A. <1978->
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| Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2013] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Universes without us : posthuman cosmologies in American literature / / Matthew A. Taylor
| Universes without us : posthuman cosmologies in American literature / / Matthew A. Taylor |
| Autore | Taylor Matthew A. <1978-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/384 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cosmology in literature
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Humanity in literature Human beings in literature Self in literature Order (Philosophy) in literature |
| ISBN | 1-4529-4051-7 |
| Classificazione | LIT004020PHI000000LIT006000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Immortal Post-Mortems -- 1. Edgar Allan Poe's Meta/Physics -- 2. Henry Adams's Half-Life: The Science of Autobiography -- 3. "By an Act of Self-Creation": On Becoming Human in America -- 4. Hoodoo You Think You Are?: Self-Conjuration in Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman -- 5. "It Might Be the Death of You": Hurston's Voodoo Ethnography -- Coda: "The Cosmo-Political Party" -- Notes -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787611503321 |
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Taylor Matthew A. <1978->
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| Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2013] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Universes without us : posthuman cosmologies in American literature / / Matthew A. Taylor
| Universes without us : posthuman cosmologies in American literature / / Matthew A. Taylor |
| Autore | Taylor Matthew A. <1978-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/384 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cosmology in literature
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Humanity in literature Human beings in literature Self in literature Order (Philosophy) in literature |
| ISBN | 1-4529-4051-7 |
| Classificazione | LIT004020PHI000000LIT006000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Immortal Post-Mortems -- 1. Edgar Allan Poe's Meta/Physics -- 2. Henry Adams's Half-Life: The Science of Autobiography -- 3. "By an Act of Self-Creation": On Becoming Human in America -- 4. Hoodoo You Think You Are?: Self-Conjuration in Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman -- 5. "It Might Be the Death of You": Hurston's Voodoo Ethnography -- Coda: "The Cosmo-Political Party" -- Notes -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808889503321 |
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Taylor Matthew A. <1978->
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| Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2013] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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