Mastery of Nature - 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 Mastery of Nature write by Svetozar Y. Minkov. This book was released on 2018-04-02. Mastery of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ranging from ancient Greek thought to contemporary quantum mechanics, Mastery of Nature investigates to what extent nature can be conquered to further human ends and to what extent such mastery is compatible with human flourishing.
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature - 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 Feminism and the Mastery of Nature write by Val Plumwood. This book was released on 2002-09-11. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature explains the relation between ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, and other feminist theories including radical green theories such as deep ecology. Val Plumwood provides a philosophically informed account of the relation of women and nature, and shows how relating male domination to the domination of nature is important and yet remains a dilemma for women.
The Mastery of Nature
The Mastery of Nature - 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 The Mastery of Nature write by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann. This book was released on 1993-01-01. The Mastery of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Responding to ongoing debates over the role of humanism in the rise of empirical science, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann explores the history of Renaissance art to help explain the complex beginnings of the scientific revolution. In a rich collection of new and previously published essays addressing conceptions of the mastery of nature, he discusses the depiction of nature in works of art, scientific approaches to understanding the world, and imperial claims to world control. This interdisciplinary approach elucidates the varying ways art, science, and humanism interact. This book contains a new assessment of the origins of trompe-l'oeil illumination in manuscript painting in response to religious devotional practices; an account of the history of shadow projection in art theory in relation to perspective, astronomy, and optics; an analysis of poems by the painter Georg Hoefnagel demonstrating how religious, philosophical, and political concerns impinge on questions of imitation; ground-breaking interpretations of Arcimboldo's paintings of composite heads as imperial allegories; an account of a poet-astronomer's collaboration with artists; an essay on Ancients and Moderns in art and science in Prague; and a new review of art, politics, science, and the Kunstkammer.
History and Nature in the Enlightenment
History and Nature in the Enlightenment - 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 History and Nature in the Enlightenment write by Mr Nathaniel Wolloch. This book was released on 2013-07-28. History and Nature in the Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mastery of nature was viewed by eighteenth-century historians as an important measure of the progress of civilization. Modern scholarship has hitherto taken insufficient notice of this important idea. This book discusses the topic in connection with the mainstream religious, political, and philosophical elements of Enlightenment culture. It considers works by Edward Gibbon, Voltaire, Herder, Vico, Raynal, Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, and a wide range of lesser- and better-known figures. It also discusses many classical, medieval, and early modern sources which influenced Enlightenment historiography, as well as eighteenth-century attitudes toward nature in general.
Ontological Politics in a Disposable World
Ontological Politics in a Disposable World - 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 Ontological Politics in a Disposable World write by Dr Luigi Pellizzoni. This book was released on 2015-08-28. Ontological Politics in a Disposable World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate, ‘enhance’ and destroy material reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature and our relationship with it have emerged, together with new forms of power. Engaging with cutting-edge social theory and elaborating on the thought of Foucault, Heidegger, Adorno and Agamben, the author demonstrates that the convergence of ontology with politics is not simply an intellectual endeavour of growing import, but also a governmental practice which builds upon neoliberal programmes, the renewed accumulation of capital and the development of technosciences in areas such as climate change, geoengineering and biotechnology.
