Nature Western Attitudes since Ancient Times

Name: Nature Western Attitudes since Ancient Times
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ISBN: 9780520244788

ISBN-10: 0520244788

ISBN-13: 9780520244788

Edition: 2005

Authors: Peter Coates

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In an advertisement for water filter cartridges, we see a tumbling waterfall. The caption reads, "Like nature, Brita is beautifully simple." What kind of thinking is this? Is nature an objective reality that, in its beautiful simplicity, is unaffected by time, culture, and place? The wordnatureitself: what do we actually mean by it? These are some of the riveting questions examined by Peter Coates as he demonstrates that nature, like us, has a history of its own. Beginning with Roman times, Coates investigates the ideological and material factors that have influenced human perceptions of, attitudes toward, and uses of nature--notably religion and ethics, science, technology, economics,…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Peter Coates is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol.



Preface



The Natures of Nature



Ancient Greece and Rome



The Middle Ages



The Advent of Modernity



The World Beyond Europe



Nature as Landscape



Reassessments of Nature: Romantic and Ecological



The Disunited Colours of Nature



The Future of Nature


Notes


Index