Mikulas Teich / Roy Porter / Bo Gustafsson (eds.)

Nature and Society in Historical Context

Herausgeber: Teich, Mikulas; Gustafsson, Bo; Porter, Roy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In general terms, one way of describing the world we live in is to say that it is made up of nature and society, and that human beings belong to both. A distinguished international team aims to contribute - through selective, interdisciplinary studies - to a much-needed but currently scant debate over the reciprocal links between perceptions of nature and perceptions of society from the ancient Greek kosmos to late twentieth-century 'ecology'. Individual essays and the general conclusions of the volume are important not only for our understanding of the evolution of knowledge of nature and of society but also for an awareness of the types of truth and perception produced in the process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 832g
• ISBN-13: 9780521495301
• ISBN-10: 052149530X
• Artikelnr.: 26717328

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Knowledge of nature and society Ernest Gellner; 2. Two
conceptions of the world in Greek and Roman thought Jan Janko; 3. Byzantine
fools: the link between nature and society Lenos Mavrommatis; 4. The
'chaotic spaces' of medieval madness: thoughts on the English and Welsh
experience Chris Philo; 5. On the perception of nature in Renaissance
society Gerhard Jaritz and Verena Winiwarter; 6. Fables of the bees: a
case-study on views of nature and society Peter Burke; 7. The earth's
fertility as a social fact in early modern England Simon Schaffer; 8. The
island and history of environmentalism: the case of St. Vincent Richard
Grove; 9. Art and nature in pre-classical economics of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries Lars Herlitz; 10. The urban and the rustic in
Enlightenment London Roy Porter; 11. Science, society and culture in the
Romantic naturforschung around 1800 Dietrich von Engelhardt; 12. The
anti-Romantic Romantics: nature, knowledge, and identity in
nineteenth-century Norway Nina Witoszek; 13. The wordy worship of nature
and the tacit feeling for nature in the history of German forestry Joachim
Radaku; 14. 'Let us begin with the weather': climate, race and cultural
distinctiveness in the American south Mart A. Stewart; 15. Wild West
imagery and landscape perception in nineteenth-century USA Gerhard
Strohmeier; 16. On human nature: Darwin and the anthropologists Adam Kuper;
17. The siren of evolutionary ethics: Darwin to Wilson Paul Farber; 18.
Mapping the human genome in the light of history Mikulas Teich; 19. The way
the world is going: the society-nature dichotomy in development rhetorics
Bengt-Erik Borgström; 20. Nature and economy Bo Gustafsson; 21. The nature
of morality and the morality of nature: problems of normative natural
philosophy Kurt Bayerz.