Nature Speaks : Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy /
What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is a perverse form of anthropocentrism. And yet nature's voice proved a powerful and durable ethical...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | The Middle Ages Series
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Citations and Abbreviations
- Introduction: Medieval Poetry and Natural Philosophy
- Part I. Framing Medieval Nature
- Chapter 1. Figuring Physis
- Chapter 2. Aristotle's Nature and Its Discontents
- Part II. Allegorizing Nature in the Vernacular
- Chapter 3. Jean de Meun and the Rule of Necessity
- Chapter 4. Allegory Without Nature: Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de vie humaine
- Part III. Love and the Limits of Natural Reason
- Chapter 5. Chaucer's Natures
- Chapter 6. "Kyndely Reson" on Trial: Translating Nature Aft er Chaucer
- Epilogue: Nature's Silence: Humanism, Posthumanism, and the Legacy of Medieval Nature
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments