The Moral Authority of Nature

by Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal

For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify.

The Moral Authority of Nature offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226136817
• ISBN13: 9780226136813
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 519 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"