For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their
political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral
authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated
debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning
testify.
"The Moral Authority of Nature" offers a wide-ranging account of
how people have used nature to think about what counts as good,
beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse
array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human
orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder,
early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts
as "against nature," race and the origin of humans, ecological
economics, and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in
time and place, from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century
China, medieval Europe to contemporary America.
Scholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome "The Moral
Authority of Nature," which provides the first sustained historical
survey of its topic.
Contributors:
Danielle Allen, Joan Cadden, Lorraine Daston, Fa-ti Fan, Eckhardt
Fuchs, Valentin Groebner, Abigail J. Lustig, Gregg Mitman, Michelle
Murphy, Katharine Park, Matt Price, Robert N. Proctor, Helmut Puff,
Robert J. Richards, Londa Schiebinger, Laura Slatkin, Julia Adeney
Thomas, Fernando Vidal
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