How Not to Make a Human

Klappentext Karl Steel is associate professor of English at Brooklyn College and author of How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages. Zusammenfassung From pet keeping to sky burials! a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream medieval thought! like much of mainstream modern thought! habitually argued that because humans alone had language! reason! and immortal souls! all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But out

Résumé
From pet keeping to sky burials, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity via a range of medieval texts.