Humanism and the Ingenious Machine: Richard Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados.
This essay argues that Ligon's History represents Barbados as a space where the ontological blending of organisms and mechanisms is a fundamental aspect of the natural world, and it suggests that the recognition of this fact would lead to a more productive and ethical commonwealth. On the one hand,...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 95 - 123 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Winter2016
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