| 书目名称 | Critique of Pure Nature | | 编辑 | Simona Stano | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Offers a provocative challenge to the modern celebration of Nature.Provides an analysis of discourses on Nature, from Greek and Latin philosophers to the present day.Features a series of case studies | | 丛书名称 | Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book challenges the Western contemporary “praise for Nature”. From food to body practices, from ecological discourses to the Covid-19 pandemic, contemporary imaginaries abound with representations of an ideal “pure Nature”, essentially defined according to a logic of denial of any artificial, modified, manipulated — in short, cultural — aspect..How should we contextualise and understand such an opposition, especially in light of the rich semantic scope of the term “nature” and its variability over time? And how can we — if we actually can — envisage alternative models and approaches capable of better accounting for such richness and variability?. .The author addresses these fundamental issues, combining an initial theoretical problematisation of the concept of nature and its evolution — from classical philosophy to the crucial changes occurred through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Romanticism and the modern era, finally considering recent insights in philosophy, sociology, cultural anthropology and semiotics — with the analysis of its discursivisation — from the iconography of Mother Nature between the past and the present to the representation of catastrophic events in f | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | Collective Representations of Nature; Natural Disasters vs; Cultural Catastrophes; Nature in the Human | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45075-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-45077-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-45075-4Series ISSN 2510-442X Series E-ISSN 2510-4438 | | issn_series | 2510-442X | | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 |
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