Cannibals and Philosophers

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... from Daniel Cottom. Cannibals and Philosophers: Bodies of
> Enlightenment (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001), Ch. 3, "The
> Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Digestion," pp. 65-98:
>
>   "The duck bore no resemblance at all, he insisted, to the famous
> 'cock of the clock' in the great mechanical masterpieces of Lyons and
> Strasbourg...."
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=qa_WAAAAMAAJ

"... the artifiact known as the Enlightenment was defined from the
beginning through an obsession with guts and disgust as much as
through the mind and reason."  ("Preface," p. xii)