The Moral Authority of NatureLorraine Daston, Fernando Vidal For 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. The Moral Authority of Nature 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. Scholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome The Moral Authority of Nature, which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic. Contributors: 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 |
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... Become As One Dead”: Nature and the Political Subject in Modern Japan, 308 Julia Adeney Thomas 13 : Liberation through Control in the Body Politics of U.S. Radical Feminism, 331 Michelle Murphy part three : boundaries, 357 14 ...
... Become As One Dead”: Nature and the Political Subject in Modern Japan, 308 Julia Adeney Thomas 13 : Liberation through Control in the Body Politics of U.S. Radical Feminism, 331 Michelle Murphy part three : boundaries, 357 14 ...
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... becomes a standard to uphold , not only with respect to other species , but also within our own : that which is es- sentially human becomes the trait to promote , be it crafty intelligence or a handy thumb . The sheer variety and ...
... becomes a standard to uphold , not only with respect to other species , but also within our own : that which is es- sentially human becomes the trait to promote , be it crafty intelligence or a handy thumb . The sheer variety and ...
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... become the means of creating and maintaining an order of normality whose only claim to naturalness could lie in the ob- jects it genetically engineers. For those who fear such a prospect, the line between gene surgery and gene ...
... become the means of creating and maintaining an order of normality whose only claim to naturalness could lie in the ob- jects it genetically engineers. For those who fear such a prospect, the line between gene surgery and gene ...
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... becomes part of a scheme of vengeance for human malfeasance. Whether this order is perceived as harmonious or oppressive, ineluctable or changeable, just or unjust, it is oddly insidious. The natural is synonymous with the self- evident ...
... becomes part of a scheme of vengeance for human malfeasance. Whether this order is perceived as harmonious or oppressive, ineluctable or changeable, just or unjust, it is oddly insidious. The natural is synonymous with the self- evident ...
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