{"product_id":"the-moral-authority-of-nature-lorraine-daston-9780226136813","title":"The Moral Authority of Nature","description":"For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Moral Authority of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder, early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as \"against nature,\" race and the origin of humans, ecological economics, and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in time and place, from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century China, medieval Europe to contemporary America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Scholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome \u003ci\u003eThe Moral Authority of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors: \u003cbr\u003e Danielle Allen, Joan Cadden, Lorraine Daston, Fa-ti Fan, Eckhardt Fuchs, Valentin Groebner, Abigail J. Lustig, Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, Katharine Park, Matt Price, Robert N. Proctor, Helmut Puff, Robert J. Richards, Londa Schiebinger, Laura Slatkin, Julia Adeney Thomas, Fernando Vidal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorraine Daston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226136817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226136813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.10w x 1.14d","brand":"Lorraine Daston","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913422012671,"sku":"9780226136813","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_24696190-4bd2-4e7f-a0ae-0b4cdc95ccb4.jpg?v=1680620321","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-moral-authority-of-nature-lorraine-daston-9780226136813","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}