The moral authority of nature / edited by Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal.
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.
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Table of 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
- 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.