The Moral Authority of Nature

• Author(s): Lorraine Daston, Fernando Vidal,
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Pages: 519
• ISBN_10: 0226136809
  ISBN_13: 9780226136806
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Philosophy / General , Philosophy / History & Surveys / General , Philosophy / Nature , Science / General , Science / History , Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects , Science / Essays ,

Description:... Introduction: Doing What Comes Naturally Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal Part One. Values 1. Measuring Authority, Authoritative Measures: Hesiod's Works and Days Laura M. Slatkin 2. Nature in Person: Medieval and Renaissance Allegories and Emblems Katharine Park 3. Burning The Fable of the Bees: The Incendiary Authority of Nature Danielle Allen 4. Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment Lorraine Daston 5. The Erotic Authority of Nature: Science, Art, and the Female during Goethe's Italian Journey Robert J. Richards 6. Nature and Bildung: Pedagogical Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany Eckhardt Fuchs 7. Economics, Ecology, and the Value of Nature Matt Price Part Two. Necessity and Freedom 8. Trouble in the Earthly Paradise: The Regime of Nature in Late Medieval Christian Culture Joan Cadden 9. Nature on Trial: Acts "Against Nature" in the Law Courts of Early Modern Germany and Switzerland Helmut Puff 10. Onanism, Enlightenment Medicine, and the Immanent Justice of Nature Fernando Vidal 11. Ants and the Nature of Nature in Auguste Forel, Erich Wasmann, and William Morton Wheeler A. J. Lustig 12. "To Become As One Dead": Nature and the Political Subject in Modern Japan Julia Adeney Thomas 13. Liberation through Control in the Body Politics of U.S. Radical Feminism Michelle Murphy Part Three. Boundaries 14. Complexio/Complexion: Categorizing Individual Natures, 1250-1600 Valentin Groebner 15. Human Experimentation in the Eighteenth Century: Natural Boundaries and Valid Testing Londa Schiebinger 16. Nature and Nation in Chinese Political Thought: The National Essence Circle in Early-Twentieth-Century China Fa-ti Fan 17. When Pollen Became Poison: A Cultural Geography of Ragweed in America Gregg Mitman 18. Three Roots of Human Recency: Molecular Anthropology, the Refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO Response to Auschwitz Robert N. Proctor List of Contributors. / Agnes Kukulska.