Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This exquisitely written book poses a question that sits at the intersection of political theory and science studies: how do natural scientists come to be privileged spokespersons for nature? . . . Ephraim makes the case that the scientific authority to speak for non-humans (i.e. 'nature') is as worldly as is the political authority to speak for humans . . . [A] thoughtful, creative, and illuminating work." *
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"Laura Ephraim brilliantly unsettles and constructively reorganizes the terms of political theory's approach to the intersection of science and politics.
Who Speaks for Nature? is an outstanding book, deeply informed by the history of modern political and scientific thought yet engaged with the immediate political stakes of controversies about scientific authority, in the social and natural sciences alike." * Patchen Markell, University of Chicago *
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Who Speaks for Nature? is an impressive piece of scholarship and a fascinating book filled with new and creative readings of Arendt, Vico, Hobbes, and Descartes. It will be an important book for anyone interested in the political theory of scientific authority." * Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *
