The moral authority of nature /
This work offers an extensive account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful or valuable. The essays here cover a diverse array of topics including the connection of cosmic and human orders from ancient Greece to contemporary America.
| Други автори: | Daston, Lorraine, 1951-, Vidal, Fernando. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
℗♭2004.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=332599 |
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Print version::
Moral authority of nature. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction :
- doing what comes naturally /
- Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal
- Measuring authority, authoritative measures : Hesiod's Works and days /
- Laura M. Slatkin
- Nature in person : medieval and Renaissance allegories and emblems /
- Katharine Park
- Burning The fable of the bees : the incendiary authority of nature /
- Danielle Allen
- Attention and the values of nature in the Enlightenment /
- Lorraine Daston
- The erotic authority of nature : science, art, and the female during Goethe's Italian journey /
- Robert J. Richards
- Nature and Bildung : pedagogical naturalism in nineteenth-century Germany /
- Eckhardt Fuchs
- Economics, ecology, and the value of nature /
- Matt Price
- Trouble in the earthly paradise : the regime of nature in late medieval Christian culture /
- Joan Cadden
- Nature on trial : acts "against nature" in the law courts of early modern Germany and Switzerland /
- Helmut Puff
- Onanism, Enlightenment medicine, and the immanent justice of nature /
- Fernando Vidal
- Ants and the nature of nature in Auguste Forel, Erich Wasmann, and William Morton Wheeler /
- A.J. Lustig
- "To become as one dead" : nature and the political subject in modern Japan /
- Julia Adeney Thomas
- Liberation through control in the body politics of U.S. radical feminism /
- Michelle Murphy
- Complexio/complexion : categorizing individual natures, 1250-1600 /
- Valentin Groebner
- Human experimentation in the eighteenth century : natural boundaries and valid testing /
- Londa Schiebinger
- Nature and nation in Chinese political thought : the national essence circle in early-twentieth-century China /
- Fa-ti Fan
- When pollen became poison : a cultural geography of ragweed in America /
- Gregg Mitman
- Three roots of human recency : molecular anthropology, the refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO response to Auschwitz /
- Robert N. Proctor.