Revealing Bodies: Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
- ISBN-10
- 1611483948
- ISBN-13
- 9781611483949
- Category
- Human body (Philosophy)
- Pages
- 239
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Author
- Erin Goss
Description
Revealing Bodies considers three thinkers not often read together, in order to ask a question: how is it that we claim to know the body? This book explores a question with wide-ranging stakes both for those with specialized interest in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultur...
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- 2012-10-26
- 328 pages
- Ebook
- Bucknell University Press
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