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1 online resource (vii, 519 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy of nature -- History.
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Philosophy of nature. |
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History. |
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Nature -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History.
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Nature -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Nature. |
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Nature. |
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Philosophy -- history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Daston, Lorraine, 1951-
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Vidal, Fernando.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moral authority of nature. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004 9780226136806 (DLC) 2003008351 (OCoLC)52091941 |
| ISBN |
9780226136820 (electronic book) |
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0226136825 (electronic book) |
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0226136809 (alkaline paper) |
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9780226136806 (alkaline paper) |
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0226136817 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226136813 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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