Month: April 2017

Animals and humans in the long eighteenth century: an intricate relationship

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How does a scholarly book get started? In the majority of cases it is bound with the author or editor’s passion and deep-rooted (and often inexplicable) connection with his or her subject matter. For me, Animals and humans: sensibility and representation, 1650-1820 began nearly ten years ago, when I read Kathryn Shevelow’s eminently readable book For the love of animals, about the growth of the animal welfare movement in the eighteenth century. Our relationship with animals never ceases to fascinate, as we see from the Wellcome Collection’s current exhibition ‘Making nature: how we see animals’, and animal studies has recently flourished in the academic mainstream. Like Shevelow’s book, it crosses the boundaries between specialised academic study and deeply felt human experience.

My own beginning with this subject, though, occurred almost in infancy. An innate attraction to animals, these others with whom we co-exist on this planet, is…

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Calendario aggiornato delle lezioni di Storia della filosofia

Il giorno 11 aprile 2017 non si terrà la lezione di Storia della filosofia a causa di una contemporanea sessione dei test di ammissione alla Laurea Magistrale in Scienze filosofiche. Le lezioni riprenderanno mercoledì 12 e seguiranno il seguente calendario.

Ricordo agli studenti interessati che il giorno 19 aprile si terrà l’esonero per la prima parte del corso di Storia della filosofia e che per sostenere la prova bisognerà seguire le indicazioni che verranno caricate su Formazione on line – Unisalento.

Copia di Calendario lezioni restanti