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Vorliegende Sprache	eng
URL	https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822380351
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Name	Hanafi, Zakiya
T I T E L	The monster in the machine
Zusatz zum Titel	magic, medicine and the marvelous in the time of the scientific revolution
Verfasserangabe	Zakiya Hanafi
Verlagsort	Durham
Verlag	Duke University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	[2000]
Umfang	1 Online-Ressource (287 p) : 16 b&w illustrations
ISBN	ISBN 978-0-8223-8035-1
Hinweis zur Nutzung	$bMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Kurzbeschreibung	Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One: The Origins of Monsters -- Two: Monstrous Matter -- Three: Monstrous Machines -- Four: Medicine and the Mechanized Body -- Five: Vico’s Monstrous Body -- Six: Monstrous Metaphor -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
2. Kurzbeschreibung	The Monster in the Machine tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Zakiya Hanafi recreates scenes of Italian life and culture from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries to show how monsters were conceptualized at this particular locale and historical juncture—a period when the sacred was being supplanted by a secular, decidedly nonmagical way of looking at the world.Noting that the word “monster” is derived from the Latin for “omen” or “warning,” Hanafi explores the monster’s early identity as a portent or messenger from God. Although monsters have always been considered “whatever we are not,” they gradually were tranformed into mechanical devices when new discoveries in science and medicine revealed the mechanical nature of the human body. In analyzing the historical literature of monstrosity, magic, and museum collections, Hanafi uses contemporary theory and the philosophy of technology to illuminate the timeless significance of the monster theme. She elaborates the association between women and the monstrous in medical literature and sheds new light on the work of Vico—particularly his notion of the conatus—by relating it to Vico’s own health. By explicating obscure and fascinating texts from such disciplines as medicine and poetics, she invites the reader to the piazzas and pulpits of seventeenth-century Naples, where poets, courtiers, and Jesuit preachers used grotesque figures of speech to captivate audiences with their monstrous wit.Drawing from a variety of texts from medicine, moral philosophy, and poetics, Hanafi’s guided tour through this baroque museum of ideas will interest readers in comparative literature, Italian literature, history of ideas, history of science, art history, poetics, women’s studies, and philosophy
1. Schlagwort	Italien
	Ungeheuer
	Kultur
	Geschichte 1550-1700
2. Schlagwort	Körper
	Mechanisierung
	Ungeheuer
	Naturwissenschaften
	Geschichte 1550-1700
3. Schlagwort	Körper
	Mechanisierung
	Medizin
	Geschichte 1550-1700
4. Schlagwortkette	Italien
	Ungeheuer
	Körper
	Automation
	Kultur
	Geschichte 1600-1700
SWB-Titel-Idn	1742796435

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The monster in the machine: magic, medicine and the marvelous in the time of the scientific revolution