{"product_id":"mastery-of-nature-9780812249934","title":"Mastery of Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early modern period, thinkers began to suggest that philosophy abjure the ideal of dispassionate contemplation of the natural world in favor of a more practically minded project that aimed to make human beings masters and possessors of nature. Humanity would seize control of its own fate and overthrow the rule by hostile natural or imaginary forces. The gradual spread of liberal democratic government, the Enlightenment, and the rise of technological modernity are to a considerable extent the fruits of this early modern shift in intellectual concern and focus. But these long-term trends have also brought unintended consequences in their wake as the dynamic forces of social reason, historical progress, and the continued recalcitrance of the natural world have combined to disillusion humans of the possibility-even the desirability-of their mastery over nature.   The essays in Mastery of Nature constitute an extensive analysis of the fundamental aspects of the human grasp of nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Addressing a mix of technology, politics, culture, and philosophy of science, the essays in \u003ci\u003eMastery of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e connect the intellectual stages of philosophical and scientific development with unusual precision and depth. The collection amounts to a rare exchange between philosophical critics of the modern scientific project and its serious defenders.\" * Robert Faulkner, Boston College *\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume is an ambitious undertaking made possible by an impressive group of contributors whose essays, while diverse, work together to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. \u003ci\u003eMastery of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to several fields, including political philosophy, intellectual history, and philosophy of science.\" * Ronna Burger, Tulane University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e —Ralph Lerner\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e —Daniel A. Doneson, Svetozar Y. Minkov, and Bernhardt L. Trout\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE PROJECT FOR MASTERY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Machiavelli and the Discovery of Fact\u003cbr\u003e —Harvey C. Mansfield\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Place of the Treatment of the Conquest of Nature in Francis Bacon's \u003ci\u003eOn the Wisdom of the Ancients\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —Svetozar Y. Minkov\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Hobbes on Nature and Its Conquest\u003cbr\u003e —Devin Stauffer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Devising Nature: An Essay on Descartes's \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on Method\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —Stuart D. Warner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Montesquieu, Commerce, and Science\u003cbr\u003e —Diana J. Schaub\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Bacon and Franklin on Religion and Mastery of Nature\u003cbr\u003e —Jerry Weinberger\u003cbr\u003e PART II. ANCIENT ALTERNATIVES AND ANTICIPATIONS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. On the Supremacy of Contemplation in Aristotle and Plato\u003cbr\u003e —Robert C. Bartlett\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Xenophon and the Conquest of Nature\u003cbr\u003e —Christopher Nadon\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Lucretius on Rebelling Against the \"Laws\" of Nature\u003cbr\u003e —Paul Ludwig\u003cbr\u003e PART III. CONSEQUENCES, CRITIQUES, AND CORRECTIONS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Return to Nature vs. Conquest of Nature\u003cbr\u003e —Arthur Melzer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Kant on Organism and History: Ambiguous Endings\u003cbr\u003e —Richard Velkley\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Beyond the Island of Truth: Hegel and the Shipwreck of Science\u003cbr\u003e —Michael A. Gillespie\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Separating the Moral and Theological Prejudices and Taking Hold of Human Evolution\u003cbr\u003e —Lise van Boxel\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. Mastery of Nature and Its Limits: The Question of Heidegger\u003cbr\u003e —Mark Blitz\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. What Is Natural Philosophy? The Perspective of Contemporary Science\u003cbr\u003e —Adam Schulman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16. Quantum Mechanics and Political Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e —Bernhardt L. Trout\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405735338327,"sku":"9780812249934","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812249934.jpg?v=1730493433","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mastery-of-nature-9780812249934","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}