... forth in the review. For Turgenev, Aksakov represented an admirable model of unselfconscious, ecotropic nature description that was nonetheless difficult for him to follow. The chapter also discusses the governing contrast for Turgenev that is not typically center versus periphery, but who...

...This chapter explores the important role of nature in scientific discovery. It highlights how early childhood experience cemented the passion of most herpetologists for the organisms they study, referencing the euphoria of discovering something in nature. The diverse pursuits of herpetologists...

...This chapter examines the limits of Soviet efforts to refashion nature, to transform deserts into gardens, and to “socialize” wasteland (pustyr'). It begins with a discussion of the arc of Andrei Platonov's writings on the desert from 1921 to 1927, the final year that he worked...

...This chapter analyzes how human nature proved less malleable than expected as workers rebelled against communist rule in East Germany and Poland, often targeting cultural symbols. It describes spaces of art that turned into outlets for political critique and nationalist sentiment and are used...

... to the future of mankind. His growing and legitimate concern over the thoughtless and irresponsible exploitation of nature did throw him into the arms of those for whom environmentalism aimed less at conservation than at reconstructing the social order. Kennan also challenged the sixties radicals' conventional...

...This chapter details how Baroque was marked by its hypertrophic rhetoric as the epitome of the Counter-Reformation’s emotional engagement with the book of nature. It points out the special significance of the work’s metaphors of deciphering, which is the text of the world that must be laboriously...

...This chapter talks about the zootomy professor Carl Brühl, whose text celebrated human beings as part of nature and its eternally renewed multitude of forms. The choice of metaphor indicates an affinity to a certain exegetical type of nature experience, anticipating the conflict inscribed from...

...Republic 6 identifies four philosophic types: those who possess the genuine philosophic nature and become philosophers; those who possess the genuine philosophic nature but fail to become philosophers because they are corrupted; those who lack the philosophic nature...

... of the philosopher. According to the book, Plato's two paradigms of the philosopher are the “philosopher by nature” and the “philosopher by design.” Philosophers by design, as the allegory of the Cave vividly shows, must be forcibly dragged from the material world of pleasure to the sublime realm of the intellect...

...; how statues and images functioned in individual spirituality; devotional use of crosses and crucifixes; saints as models of spirituality; and nature as God's art. John of Fécamp in tenth and eleventh centuries Anselm of Aosta or of Canterbury Bynum Caroline individualism Morris Colin Southern...

...This chapter presents a portrait of Charles Darwin as a child left to pursue his natural instincts, beginning with his impertinent early years. According to Ernst Mayr, what made Darwin such a great scientist and intellectual innovator was his insatiable curiosity, claiming that “he never took...

... and Cynewulf tackle a material long associated with Jewish materialism, stone, in comparison with Christian materialism and descibes their accounts of the sepulchral Jew as well as the stony nature of Jews. It also considers how Bede and Cynewulf construct Christianity by asserting its alterity and opposition...

...This chapter describes the genesis of Maistrian historical thought in De l'état de nature and De la souveraineté du people (1794–96), two essays that refute Jean-Jacques Rousseau and contain most of Maistre's historical thought in potentia. It was in refuting...

...This 5,000 word chapter brings together the political, discursive, and material threads to consider the “city of forests” and “city of farms” as two different assemblages. It explores these pieces of urban nature in the context of an early-21^st century global city that has engaged...

... chapters is also presented. Alpers Paul Patterson Annabel Dickens Charles Harrison Robert Pogue Milton John Mimesis Representation Spenser Edmund Thoreau Henry David Wordsworth William Environmental justice Nature Presentism Aristotle Cratylus Plato Spivak Gayatri Williams Raymond...

...This chapter elaborates on the nature of Buddhism. It starts with the Buddha's multifaceted interactions with nāgas which provides further understanding of the overall roles of natural beings in the Buddha's life. Moreover, nāgas articulate their personhood by practising Buddhism in sometimes...

...This chapter examines the roles of nature spirits and their practices in the Buddhist world of Sri Lanka. As Buddhism has travelled from its original Indian home it has interacted with a vast array of other religious forms. Despite the vibrant relational animist appearances, there was only a little...

...This chapter reflects on Hans Blumenberg's “The Relationship between Nature and Technology as a Philosophical Problem” (1951), a reception history of technē. Technology has historically constituted itself as applied natural science — as a constructive extension of nature...

... that their biological origins lie in the narrow span of the last interglacial period, when they learned the ability to cope with life caught between the advancing and receding glaciers; the natural being was now pitted against nature. Blumenberg Hans writings International Society for the Exploration of the Arctic...

...This chapter discusses Thucydides' and Hobbes's ideas of human nature, which are often said to be very similar. International relations theorists are just as much prone to this mistake as others, referring to Thucydides, as they do to Hobbes, as a “realist.” Hobbes's view is close to the view...