Rousseau Between Nature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rousseau Between Nature and Culture write by Anne Deneys-Tunney. This book was released on 2016-03-07. Rousseau Between Nature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rousseau has been seen as the inventor of the concept of nature; in this collective volume philosophers and literary specialists from France and the United States examine how Rousseau's philosophy can be reinterpreted from the point of view of a constant dialectical debate between nature and culture. In this, Rousseau is our true contemporary.
Being After Rousseau
Being After Rousseau - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being After Rousseau write by Richard L. Velkley. This book was released on 2002-05. Being After Rousseau available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Being after Rousseau, Richard L. Velkley presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture—a reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this tradition from Rousseau to Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, and Martin Heidegger, Velkley shows late modern philosophy as a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between nature and society, culture and civilization, and philosophy and society that Rousseau brought to the fore. The Rousseauian tradition begins, for Velkley, with Rousseau's criticism of modern political philosophy. Although the German Idealists such as Schelling accepted much of Rousseau's critique, they believed, unlike Rousseau, that human wholeness could be attained at the level of society and history. Heidegger and Nietzsche questioned this claim, but followed both Rousseau and the Idealists in their vision of the philosopher-poet striving to recover an original wholeness that the history of reason has distorted.
Rousseau Between Nature and Culture
Rousseau Between Nature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rousseau Between Nature and Culture write by Anne Deneys-Tunney. This book was released on 2016. Rousseau Between Nature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beyond Nature and Culture
Beyond Nature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Nature and Culture write by Philippe Descola. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Beyond Nature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French edition Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Culture—as a collective human making, of art, language, and so forth—is often seen as essentially different from nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Philippe Descola shows this essential difference to be not only a Western notion, but also a very recent one. Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, he formulates a sophisticated new framework, the “four ontologies” —animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism—to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature. By thinking beyond nature and culture as a simple dichotomy, Descola offers a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh. “A compelling and original account of where the nature-culture binary has come from, where it might go—and what we might imagine in its place.” —Somatosphere “The most important book coming from French anthropology since Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Anthropologie Structurale.” —Bruno Latour, author of An Inquiry into Modes of Existence “Descola’s challenging new worldview should be of special interest to a wide range of scientific and academic disciplines from anthropology to zoology . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Nature Across Cultures
Nature Across Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature Across Cultures write by Helaine Selin. This book was released on 2013-04-17. Nature Across Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both environmental history and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.
