Cruel delight enlightenment culture and the inhuman / [electronic resource] :
James A. Steintrager.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
- xviii, 208 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.
The inhuman -- The model of moral monstrosity -- The paradox of inhumanity -- Curiosity killed the cat -- Animals and the mark of the human -- The monstrous face of curiosity -- The bedside manner of the Marquis de Sade -- Science and insensibility -- The ethics and aesthetics of human vivisection.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.