Nature and Society in Historical ContextMikulas Teich, Roy Porter, Bo Gustafsson 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. This is the first volume to be published which addresses the historical contexts of the relations between these two characteristics of human nature. 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Knowledge of nature and society | 9 |
Two conceptions of the world in Greek and Roman thought cyclicity and degeneration | 18 |
Byzantine fools the link between nature and society | 37 |
The chaotic spaces of medieval madness Thoughts on the English and Welsh experience | 51 |
On the perception of nature in a Renaissance society | 91 |
fables of the bees a casestudy on views of nature and society | 112 |
The Earths fertility as a social fact in Early Modern England | 124 |
The antiRomantic Romantics nature knowledge and identity in nineteenthcentury Norway | 209 |
The wordy worship of nature and the tacit feeling for nature in the history of German forestry | 228 |
Let us begin with the weathers climate race and cultural distinctiveness in the American South | 240 |
Wild West imagery landscape perception in nineteenthcentury America | 257 |
On human nature Darwin and the anthropologists | 274 |
The siren of evolutionary ethics Darwin to Wilson | 291 |
Mapping the human genome in the light of history | 308 |
The way the world is going the societynature dichotomy in development rhetoric | 332 |
The Island and the history of environmentalism the case of St Vincent | 148 |
Art and nature in preclassical economics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries | 163 |
The urban and the rustic in Enlightenment London | 176 |
Science society and culture in the Romantic Naturforschung around 1800 | 195 |
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