SOCD41H3 Lecture Notes - Cynocephaly, Barnacle Goose, Natural Philosophy
Document Summary
Katherine park and lorraine daston are intellectual and cultural historians of early modern. The article for next week takes us back to some of the historical periods mentioned by foucault. They argue that what the monstrous represented was changing in sixteenth and seventeenth century england and france, from representing divine wrath to a prodigious event to some pathological aberration. For your paragraph, choose one of the examples they cover and explain how it fits into their argument about the change. Park and daston discussed social and cultural shifts that affect our understanding of what is monster. Unlike marx, foucault, and latour, the modernity of print allowed us to catalogue the image of monster and disperse it without boundaries. Unlike in previous centuries, epidemiological accounts and broadsides gave a new interpretation of what a monster is. However, in better understanding the monsters we can understand ourselelves.
