August 9th, 2009 / 10:44 am
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Specimens of our Species

Princeton University Press recently released an interesting-looking book called An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth.

“An Intellectual History of Cannibalism is the first book to systematically examine the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers, from the classical period to modern disputes about such wide-ranging issues as vegetarianism and the right to private property.”

Here’s a review by Jenny Diski at London Review of Books.

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7 Comments

  1. August 9th, 2009 / 4:24 pm Michael James—

      This is so awesome I think I pee’d myself a little.

      Yup. I did.

  2. August 9th, 2009 / 12:24 pm Michael James—

      This is so awesome I think I pee’d myself a little.

      Yup. I did.

  3. August 10th, 2009 / 5:08 am Janey Smith—

      I’m hungry.

  4. August 10th, 2009 / 1:08 am Janey Smith—

      I’m hungry.

  5. August 11th, 2009 / 8:39 am Angi—

      I’m in a lit class focused on cannibalism right now, and one of our books is called Cannibalism and the Colonial World, and it’s also quite good. A lot of different essays from a variety of angles, largely focused on the notion of cannibalism as an ultimate representation of otherness (as opposed to a practice that has ever actually been widespread). Interesting stuff, that eating of human flesh.

  6. August 11th, 2009 / 4:39 am Angi—

      I’m in a lit class focused on cannibalism right now, and one of our books is called Cannibalism and the Colonial World, and it’s also quite good. A lot of different essays from a variety of angles, largely focused on the notion of cannibalism as an ultimate representation of otherness (as opposed to a practice that has ever actually been widespread). Interesting stuff, that eating of human flesh.

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