Understanding Nature
Hub Zwart
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Description for Understanding Nature
Paperback. Series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 419.
This summons clearly resonates with the “archetypical image” associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter 2, water as the element of freedom, of mobility, of widening one’s horizon. Although Nietzsche himself refrained from doing what he summoned others to do, scientists like Darwin and novelists like Melville actually went to sea. Darwin, although regarded by Nietzsche as an arid 6 and mediocre mind, exposed himself to the experience of a long-term trans-oceanic voyage in the course of which he did discover new worlds, new justifications, new moral watchwords even (“struggle for life”) that were to have a ... Read more
This summons clearly resonates with the “archetypical image” associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter 2, water as the element of freedom, of mobility, of widening one’s horizon. Although Nietzsche himself refrained from doing what he summoned others to do, scientists like Darwin and novelists like Melville actually went to sea. Darwin, although regarded by Nietzsche as an arid 6 and mediocre mind, exposed himself to the experience of a long-term trans-oceanic voyage in the course of which he did discover new worlds, new justifications, new moral watchwords even (“struggle for life”) that were to have a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Series
The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048176540
SKU
V9789048176540
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Reviews for Understanding Nature
From the reviews: "Hub Zwart’s Understanding Nature is a project designed as a defense of epistemology reformulated as a comparative practice that conceives knowledge as a process undertaken by a range of disciplines and practices to apprehend the constitutive features of complex phenomena. … the great strength of Understanding Nature is Zwart’s fascinating and provocative ... Read more