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

 - Basel  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2023 
 - 1 online resource (144 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783036595245 9783036595252 books978-3-0365-9525-2 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-0365-9525-2  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biology, life sciences<br/>Ecological science, the Biosphere<br/>Research & information: general
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Albertus Magnus Alfred North Whitehead anarchism ancestry anthropology Aristotelianism atomism barbarism civilization corpuscles culture Donna J. Haraway ecology environment European history Fin de Siècle historical anthropology history of biology history of ideas human body Humboldtian science image of man indigenous knowledge Japan Magnus Hundt medieval breeding medieval medicine metaphysics n/a natural philosophy naturalism nature nature as a huge organism pedagogy philosophy of nature philosophy of subjectivity physico-theology pollution practical knowledge race religion savage scholasticism science seventeenth century symmetrical history Thomism