Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and LiteratureL. J. Jordanova |
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... forms and to show , in practice , that any thorough verbal analysis is inevitably social and historical , unless theoretical blocks are deliberately imposed . There has been , and indeed still is , as much resis- tance to these extended ...
... forms and to show , in practice , that any thorough verbal analysis is inevitably social and historical , unless theoretical blocks are deliberately imposed . There has been , and indeed still is , as much resis- tance to these extended ...
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... forms ; analysis of areas of interaction bet- ween different forms of writing . Consciously historical , the essays treat selected examples from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , yet a sense of the twentieth century and of some ...
... forms ; analysis of areas of interaction bet- ween different forms of writing . Consciously historical , the essays treat selected examples from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , yet a sense of the twentieth century and of some ...
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... form , natural philosophers strove extremely hard to manage and dominate their materials - a project in which they were ... forms of ' man ' a curiously abstract notion which belies the insistent exploration of sex differences . Second ...
... form , natural philosophers strove extremely hard to manage and dominate their materials - a project in which they were ... forms of ' man ' a curiously abstract notion which belies the insistent exploration of sex differences . Second ...
Contents
Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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