Catalin Avramescu, from the University of Bucharest, discusses the part played in 17th and 18th century thought by the cannibal. Cannibalism provided a kind of test case for all sorts of natural law theories – it also posed difficulties for those who believed in a literal resurrection of the body after death, since if eaten, then their body parts would have been assimilated into someone else's body.
Listen to Catalin Avramescu on the Idea of Cannibalism
The introduction to Avramescu's An Intellectual History of Cannibalism can be found over at Princeton University Press.
Also, Jenny Diski's review of the book can be found over at the LRB, here, and Justin's review in n+1.