The Moral Authority of Nature by Lorraine Daston
This work offers an extensive account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful or valuable. The essays here cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders from ancient Greece to contemporary America.
Daston, Lorraine: - Lorraine J. 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, all three published by Zone Books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226136813 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226136817 |
| Title | The Moral Authority of Nature |
| Author | Lorraine Daston |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2003-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 526 |
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