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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
Ã2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.