Images of Nature-From the Middle Ages to (Non-)Western Modernities

• Autres auteurs: Mathieu, Jon (Éditeur intellectuel), Leoni, Simona Boscani (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Sujets: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Ecological science, the Biosphere; nature; culture; science; religion; European history; scholasticism; image of man; Thomism; medieval medicine; anthropology; Magnus Hundt; human body; Japan; history of ideas; environment; pollution; ecology; physico-theology; nature as a huge organism; Alfred North Whitehead; philosophy of nature; philosophy of subjectivity; metaphysics; Donna J. Haraway; anarchism; naturalism; Fin de Siècle; pedagogy; historical anthropology; history of biology; symmetrical history; medieval breeding; race; ancestry; Aristotelianism; Albertus Magnus; practical knowledge; natural philosophy; seventeenth century; atomism; corpuscles; Humboldtian science; barbarism; savage; civilization; indigenous knowledge; n/a
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Natura is a polysemic Latin word that has accompanied the historical development of the West for centuries, spreading around much of the globe with colonialism and imperialism. It has been adopted in numerous languages. Our relationship with nature has become a highly charged issue at least since th...