Crist examines how different writing styles (e.g., Darwinian continuity vs. Cartesian mechanization) transfigure the reader's view of an animal's body from a "sentient subject" to a "vacant object".
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A central tension in Western thought is the "unbridgeable hiatus" between humans and animals versus the Darwinian view of evolutionary continuity. This conflict remains at the heart of all behavioral writings. Crist examines how different writing styles (e
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