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Catalin Avramescu

    An Intellectual History of Cannibalism
    • 2011

      An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

      • 360 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Examines the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers, from the classical period to modern disputes about such issues as vegetarianism and the right to private property. This book tells the story of the birth of modernity and of the philosophies of culture that arose in the wake of the Enlightenment.

      An Intellectual History of Cannibalism