{"product_id":"critique-of-pure-nature-von-simona-stano","title":"Critique of Pure Nature","description":"\n                                \n                \u003cp\u003eThis book challenges the Western contemporary “praise for Nature”. From food to body practices, from ecological discourses to the Covid-19 pandemic, contemporary imaginaries abound with representations of an ideal “pure Nature”, essentially defined according to a logic of denial of any artificial, modified, manipulated — in short, cultural — aspect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                \u003cp\u003eHow should we contextualise and understand such an opposition, especially in light of the rich semantic scope of the term “nature” and its variability over time? And how can we — if we actually can — envisage alternative models and approaches capable of better accounting for such richness and variability?\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                \u003cp\u003e\n                                        The author addresses these fundamental issues, combining an initial theoretical problematisation of the concept of nature and its evolution — from classical philosophy to the crucial changes occurred through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Romanticism and the modern era, finally considering recent insights in philosophy, sociology, cultural anthropology and semiotics — with the analysis of its discursivisation — from the iconography of Mother Nature between the past and the present to the representation of catastrophic events in fictional and non-fictional texts, from clean eating and other popular food trends to the ambivalence of the naked body between its supposed natural ascription and its multiple cultural characterisations. Thus she introduces a \n                    \n                    \u003ci\u003ecritique of pure Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\n                                        , providing a systematic study of the way nature is attributed meaning and value in some of today’s most relevant discourses and practices, and finally tracing a possible path towards an “internatural turn”. \n                \n                \u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                \u003cbr\u003e\n                            \n            \u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783031450747\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783031450778\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9783031450747","offer_id":47372905021765,"sku":"9783031450747","price":53.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Softcover - 9783031450778","offer_id":53759355322693,"sku":"9783031450778","price":53.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/659ebd0b-b85b-422f-bb0d-38a2a2998758.jpg?v=1775194375","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/critique-of-pure-nature-von-simona-stano","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}