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

• Other Authors: Mathieu, Jon (Editor), Leoni, Simona Boscani (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: 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 the "ecological turn" around 1970. It is as much about the relationship of humans to the environment as it is about the relationship of humans to each other. In the course of these debates, research has intensified in various disciplines: history, anthropology, philosophy, literature, ecology, etc. The nine contributions gathered in this volume deal with the dimension of perception and its long-term development from the Middle Ages to the present time. They trace in detail how images of nature were adopted, modified, and transmitted for specific purposes in specific situations. The introduction to the volume provides an overview and brings the contributions together.