Concern, Compassion, Curiosity: Understanding Care and Nonhuman Animals in Early Modern France

关心、同情、好奇：理解早期现代法国的护理和非人类动物

• 批准号: 2115651
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2115651
• 关键词: Concern; Compassion; Curiosity; Understanding; Care

The ways in which we interact (and have historically interacted) with nonhuman animals are often complex and contradictory. As a society, we are currently experiencing significant changes in the ways we think about and behave towards animals, including through legislative changes or growing awareness of key debates within animal ethics. The aim of this project is therefore to look back to early modern France - a time when attitudes towards animals were being reformulated, as they are at present - to understand the complex ways care was understood in relation to animals and why this remains relevant today. Whilst care can mean showing concern for another, it is a multi-faceted concept that encompasses our own and others' physical and affective, or emotional, needs. To gain a comprehensive insight into these diverse ways early moderns interacted with animals, the project comprises a broad corpus, from philosophical texts to animal care and veterinary manuals, natural histories, vivisection reports and literary works. Through framing the central research questions within the feminist ethic of care, the aim is to demonstrate the relevance of these understandings of care today and its importance as both a theoretical and practical activity.

我们与非人类动物互动的方式（以及历史上的互动方式）往往是复杂和矛盾的。作为一个社会，我们目前正在经历我们对动物的思考和行为方式的重大变化，包括通过立法变化或对动物伦理中关键辩论的日益认识。因此，这个项目的目的是回顾近代早期的法国-一个对动物的态度被重新制定的时代，就像他们现在一样-了解与动物有关的护理的复杂方式，以及为什么这在今天仍然相关。虽然关怀可能意味着对他人的关心，但它是一个多方面的概念，包括我们自己和他人的身体和情感或情感需求。为了全面了解早期现代人与动物互动的各种方式，该项目包括一个广泛的语料库，从哲学文本到动物护理和兽医手册，自然历史，活体解剖报告和文学作品。通过框架内的女性主义关怀伦理的中心研究问题，其目的是要证明的相关性，今天的护理和它的重要性，作为一个理论和实践活动的这些理解。