Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance

by Robert N. Watson

Book Overview

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Sweeping across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern ecological and epistemological anxieties were conjoined twins. Urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, revived Skepticism, empirical science, and optical technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220226
• ISBN13: 9780812220223
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"