Traces On The Rhodian Shore Nature And Culture In Western Thought From Ancient Times To The End Of The Eighteenth Century By Clarence J Glacken
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Author | : Clarence J. Glacken |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520023673 |
In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked three questions concerning the habitable earth and their relationships toit. From the time of the Greeks to our own, answers to these questions have been and are being given so frequently and so continually that we may restate them in the form of general ideas.
Author | : Clarence J. GLACKEN |
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Total Pages | : 763 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Human geography |
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Author | : Clarence J. Glacken |
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Total Pages | : 763 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Human ecology |
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Author | : Clarence J. Glacken |
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Total Pages | : 763 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Clarence L. Glacken |
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Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Civilization, Western |
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Author | : Henry Vyverberg |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1989-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195345223 |
In this work, Henry Vyverberg traces the evolution and consequences of a crucial idea in French Enlightenment thought--the idea of human nature. Human nature was commonly seen as a broadly universal, unchanging entity, though perhaps modifiable by geographical, social, and historical factors. Enlightenment empiricism suggested a degree of cultural diversity that has often been underestimated in studies of the age. Evidence here is drawn from Diderot's celebrated Encyclopedia and from a vast range of writing by such Enlightenment notables as Voltaire, Rousseau, and d'Holbach. Vyverberg explains not only the age's undoubted fascination with uniformity in human nature, but also its acknowledgment of significant limitations on that uniformity. He shows that although the Enlightenment's historical sense was often blinkered by its notions of a uniform human nature, there were also cracks in this concept that developed during the Enlightenment itself.
Author | : Mary McAlpin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317135903 |
In her study of eighteenth-century literature and medical treatises, Mary McAlpin takes up the widespread belief among cultural philosophers of the French Enlightenment that society was gravely endangered by the effects of hyper-civilization. McAlpin's study explores a strong thread in this rhetoric of decline: the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls, supposedly brought on by their exposure to lascivious images, titillating novels, and lewd conversations, was the source of an increasing moral and physical degeneration. In how-to hygiene books intended for parents, the medical community declared that the only cure for this obviously involuntary departure from the "natural" path of sexual development was the increased surveillance of young girls. As these treatises by vitalist and vitalist-inspired physiologists became increasingly common in the 1760s, McAlpin shows, so, too, did the presence of young, vulnerable, and virginal heroines in the era's novels. Analyzing novels by, among others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, and Choderlos de Laclos, she offers physiologically based readings of many of the period's most famous heroines within the context of an eighteenth-century discourse on women and heterosexual desire that broke with earlier periods in recasting female and male desire as qualitatively distinct. Her study persuasively argues that the Western view of women's sexuality as a mysterious, nebulous force-Freud's "dark continent"-has its secular origins in the mid-eighteenth century.
Author | : Cara New Daggett |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019-09-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1478005343 |
In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of industrialized work. As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imperial science to govern fossil fuel use, labor, and colonial expansion, in part through a hierarchical ordering of humans and nonhumans. By systematically excavating the historical connection between energy and work, Daggett argues that only by transforming the politics of work—most notably, the veneration of waged work—will we be able to confront the Anthropocene's energy problem. Substituting one source of energy for another will not ensure a habitable planet; rather, the concepts of energy and work themselves must be decoupled.
Author | : Andrew C. Isenberg |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 801 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190673486 |
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History draws on a wealth of new scholarship to offer diverse perspectives on the state of the field.
Author | : SivToveKulbrandstad Walker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351549138 |
Employing a wide range of approaches from various disciplines, contributors to this volume explore the diverse ways in which European art and cultural practice from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries confronted, interpreted, represented and evoked the realm of the sensual. Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice investigates how the faculties of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell were made to perform in a range of guises in early modern cultural practice: as agents of indulgence and pleasure, as bearers of information on material reality, as mediators between the mind and the outer world, and even as intercessors between humans and the divine. The volume examines not only aspects of the arts of painting and sculpture but also extends into other spheres: philosophy, music and poetry, gardens, food, relics and rituals. Collectively, the essays gathered here form a survey of key debates and practices attached to the theme of the senses in Renaissance and Baroque art and cultural practice.