Against Nature
$38.79
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
20 May 2019
Summary
The Allure of the Natural: Why We Seek Morality in Nature
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.
Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enlisted to illustrate and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262537339 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262537338 |
| Series: | Untimely Meditations |
| Author: | Lorraine Daston |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 20 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 92g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm x 6mm |
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About The Author
Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the coauthor (with Katharine Park) of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 and (with Peter Galison) Objectivity and the editor of Things that Talk- Object Lessons from Art and Science.
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