When the beasts spoke: Animal speech and classical reason in descartes and la fontaine

Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 61-84

  Senior, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315022253-12     Document Type: Chapter

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