{"product_id":"the-moral-authority-of-nature-paperback","title":"The Moral Authority of Nature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLorraine Daston\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Moral Authority of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder, early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as \"against nature,\" race and the origin of humans, ecological economics, and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in time and place, from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century China, medieval Europe to contemporary America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Scholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome \u003ci\u003eThe Moral Authority of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors: \u003cbr\u003e Danielle Allen, Joan Cadden, Lorraine Daston, Fa-ti Fan, Eckhardt Fuchs, Valentin Groebner, Abigail J. Lustig, Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, Katharine Park, Matt Price, Robert N. Proctor, Helmut Puff, Robert J. Richards, Londa Schiebinger, Laura Slatkin, Julia Adeney Thomas, Fernando Vidal\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Moral Authority of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder, early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as against nature, race and the origin of humans, ecological economics, and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in time and place, from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century China, medieval Europe to contemporary America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome \u003ci\u003eThe Moral Authority of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors: \u003cbr\u003eDanielle Allen, Joan Cadden, Lorraine Daston, Fa-ti Fan, Eckhardt Fuchs, Valentin Groebner, Abigail J. Lustig, Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, Katharine Park, Matt Price, Robert N. Proctor, Helmut Puff, Robert J. Richards, Londa Schiebinger, Laura Slatkin, Julia Adeney Thomas, Fernando Vidal\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Moral Authority of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder, early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as \"against nature,\" race and the origin of humans, ecological economics, and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in time and place, from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century China, medieval Europe to contemporary America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome \u003ci\u003eThe Moral Authority of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors: \u003cbr\u003eDanielle Allen, Joan Cadden, Lorraine Daston, Fa-ti Fan, Eckhardt Fuchs, Valentin Groebner, Abigail J. Lustig, Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, Katharine Park, Matt Price, Robert N. Proctor, Helmut Puff, Robert J. Richards, Londa Schiebinger, Laura Slatkin, Julia Adeney Thomas, Fernando Vidal\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorraine Daston\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eClassical Probability in the Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWonders and the Order of Nature, 1150 1750\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of \u003ci\u003eBiographies of Scientific Objects\u003c\/i\u003e, the last published by the University of Chicago Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFernando Vidal\u003c\/b\u003e is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He is author of \u003ci\u003ePiaget before Piaget\u003c\/i\u003e and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eAnalyse et sauvegarde de l'âme au siècle des Lumières\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 519\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.14 x 8.98 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45958021251269,"sku":"9780226136813","price":81.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/vODsfQO3H19780226136813.webp?v=1773392031","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-moral-authority-of-nature-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}