Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and LiteratureL. J. Jordanova |
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... present - day discipline boundaries existed then . The most powerful of these is the modern professional career structure , which actively discourages people from changing fields , since to do so leads to a situation in which ' career ...
... present - day discipline boundaries existed then . The most powerful of these is the modern professional career structure , which actively discourages people from changing fields , since to do so leads to a situation in which ' career ...
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... present their writings as ' true ' stories . The act of writing does not just lead to a text , it also produces relation- ships between the author and the reader . Each piece of writing constructs a writer and a reader , but does not of ...
... present their writings as ' true ' stories . The act of writing does not just lead to a text , it also produces relation- ships between the author and the reader . Each piece of writing constructs a writer and a reader , but does not of ...
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... present images of the euphoria of natural virtue not in terms of some real connection with the contemporary world but in terms of nostalgia or aspiration . In either case , it is at one remove from the pressures and complexities of real ...
... present images of the euphoria of natural virtue not in terms of some real connection with the contemporary world but in terms of nostalgia or aspiration . In either case , it is at one remove from the pressures and complexities of real ...
Contents
Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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