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Letters On Botany And Fragments For A Dictionary Of Botanical Terms
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Book Synopsis Letters on Botany and Fragments for a Dictionary of Botanical Terms by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book Letters on Botany and Fragments for a Dictionary of Botanical Terms written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rousseau taught us to look at plants and animals with new eyes, to appreciate the beauty and mystery of the natural world." Henry David Thoreau A new translation into English from the original manuscripts of Rousseau's classic and influential Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique (Elementary Letters on Botany) and his 1782 Fragments pour un Dictionnaire des termes de Botanique (Fragments for a Dictionary of Botanical Terms). These two works are his major writings on the natural world and have had a significant impact on Natural Science and Ecology. In both of these works, Rousseau explores the beauty and complexity of nature, and argues that an appreciation for the natural world is essential for human well-being.
Book Synopsis Reveries of the Solitary Walker by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book Reveries of the Solitary Walker written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views. Returning to Paris the philosopher determines to keep a faithful record of the thoughts and ideas that come to him on his perambulations. Part reminiscence, part reflection, enlivened by anecdote and encounters, the Reveries form a kind of sequel to his Confessions, but they are more introspective and less defensive: Rousseau finds happiness in solitude, walks in nature, botanizing, and meditation. Writing an account of his walks becomes a means of achieving self-knowledge and safeguarding for himself the pleasure that others, he is convinced, seek to deny him. The Reveries, shaped by the unmediated nature of Rousseau's thought processes, give powerfully lyrical expression to a painfully tortured soul in search of peace. This new translation is accompanied by an introduction and notes that explore the nature of the work and its historical, literary, and intellectual contexts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book Rousseau written by Nicholas Dent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this superb introduction, Nicholas Dent covers the whole of Rousseau's thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Rousseau's life and works, he introduces and assesses Rousseau's central ideas and arguments. These include the corruption of modern civilization, the state of nature, his famous theories of amour de soi and amour propre, education, and his famous work Emile. He gives particular attention to Rousseau's theories of democracy and freedom found in his most celebrated work, The Social Contract, and explains what Rousseau meant by the 'general will'.
Download or read book Rousseau written by N. J. H. Dent and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an overview of Rousseau's life & works, Dent assesses the central ideas & arguments of Rousseau's philosophy, including the corruption of modern civilization, the state of nature, his theories of amour de soi & amour propre, & his theories of education.
Book Synopsis Philosophy and Biodiversity by : Markku Oksanen
Download or read book Philosophy and Biodiversity written by Markku Oksanen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important collection focuses on the nature and importance of biodiversity. The concept is clarified and its intrinsic and instrumental value are discussed. Even though the term biodiversity was invented in the 1980s to promote the cause of species conservation, discussions on biological diversity go back to Plato. There are many controversies surrounding biodiversity and a few of them are examined here: What is worthy of protection or restoration and what is the acceptable level of costs? Is it permissible to kill sentient animals to promote native populations? Can species be reintroduced if they have disappeared a long time ago? How should the responsibilities for biodiversity be shared? This book will be of interest to philosophers of science and biologists, but also to anyone interested in conservation and the environment.
Book Synopsis Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830 by : Sam George
Download or read book Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830 written by Sam George and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women’s engagement with the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and his unsettling discovery of plant sexuality. Previously ignored primary texts of an extraordinary nature are rescued from obscurity and assigned a proper place in the histories of science, eighteenth-century literature, and women’s writing. The result is groundbreaking: the author explores nationality and sexuality debates in relation to botany and charts the appearance of a new literary stereotype, the sexually precocious female botanist. She uncovers an anonymous poem on Linnaean botany, handwritten in the eighteenth century, and subsequently traces the development of a new genre of women’s writing — the botanical poem with scientific notes. The book is indispensable reading for all scholars of the eighteenth century, especially those interested in Romantic women’s writing, or the relationship between literature and science.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment by : Michel Delon
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment written by Michel Delon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 3153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.
Book Synopsis The Treasury of Botany: a Popular Dictionary of Vegetable Kingdom with which is Incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms Edited by John Lindley and Thomas Moore by :
Download or read book The Treasury of Botany: a Popular Dictionary of Vegetable Kingdom with which is Incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms Edited by John Lindley and Thomas Moore written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum by :
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue ... 1807-1871 by : Boston Mass, Athenaeum, libr
Download or read book Catalogue ... 1807-1871 written by Boston Mass, Athenaeum, libr and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenæum by : Boston Athenaeum
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenæum written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies by : Robert Wokler
Download or read book Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies written by Robert Wokler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum by : Boston Athenaeum
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" by : Thomas L. Pangle
Download or read book The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" written by Thomas L. Pangle and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Thomas L. Pangle argues that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an in-depth interpretation of the writing's complex and multileveled intended teaching about the normatively best way of life—and how essential this is for a work that was initially bewildering. Rousseau stands out among modern political philosophers in that he restored, to political philosophy, what Socrates and his students (from Plato and Xenophon through Aristotle and the Stoics and Cicero) had made central—and that the previous modern, Enlightenment philosophers had eclipsed: the study of the life and soul of the exemplary, independent sage, as possessor of "human wisdom." Rousseau made this again the supreme theme and source of norms for political philosophy and for humanity's moral as well as civic existence. In his analysis of The Reveries, Pangle uncovers Rousseau's most profound exploration and articulation of his own life, personality, soul, and thought as "the man of nature enlightened by reason." He describes, in Rousseau's final work, the fullest embodiment of the experiential wisdom from which flows and to which points Rousseau's political and moral philosophy, his theology, and his musical and literary art.
Book Synopsis The Treasury of Botany by : John Lindley
Download or read book The Treasury of Botany written by John Lindley and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Courier written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Liverpool Free Public Library by : Liverpool (England). Free Public Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Liverpool Free Public Library written by Liverpool (England). Free Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
