Images Of Animals.
Seeing a cat rubbing against a person, Charles Darwin described her as "in an affectionate frame of mind"; for Samuel Barnett, a behavioralist, the mental realm is beyond the grasp of scientists andbehavior must be described technically, as a physical action only. What difference does this...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2010.
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| Summary: | Seeing a cat rubbing against a person, Charles Darwin described her as "in an affectionate frame of mind"; for Samuel Barnett, a behavioralist, the mental realm is beyond the grasp of scientists andbehavior must be described technically, as a physical action only. What difference does this difference make? In Eileen Crist's analysis of the language used to portray animal behavior, the difference "is that in the reader's mind the very image of the cat's 'body' is transfigured ... from an experiencing subject ... into a vacant object." Images of Animals examines the literature of. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781439904725 1439904723 1282644475 9781282644472 |
