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Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy - Robertson
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- 9780812248654
- Publication Name
- Nature Speaks : Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Series
- The Middle Ages Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 26.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 456 Pages
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What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is a perverse form of anthropocentrism. And yet nature's voice proved a powerful and durable ethical tool for premodern writers, many of whom used it to explore what it meant to be an embodied creature or to ask whether human experience is independent of the natural world in which it is forged. The history of the late medieval period can be retold as the story of how nature gained an authoritative voice only to lose it again at the onset of modernity. This distinctive voice, Kellie Robertson argues, emerged from a novel historical confluence of physics and fiction-writing. Natural philosophers and poets shared a language for talking about physical inclination, the inherent desire to pursue the good that was found in all things living and nonliving. Moreover, both natural philosophers and poets believed that representing the visible world was a problem of morality rather than mere description. Based on readings of academic commentaries and scientific treatises as well as popular allegorical poetry, Nature Speaks contends that controversy over Aristotle's natural philosophy gave birth to a philosophical poetics that sought to understand the extent to which the human will was necessarily determined by the same forces that shaped the rest of the material world. Modern disciplinary divisions have largely discouraged shared imaginative responses to this problem among the contemporary sciences and humanities. Robertson demonstrates that this earlier worldview can offer an alternative model of human-nonhuman complementarity, one premised neither on compulsory human exceptionalism nor on the simple reduction of one category to the other. Most important, Nature Speaks assesses what is gained and what is lost when nature's voice goes silent.
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812248651
ISBN-13
9780812248654
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229522152
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Nature Speaks : Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Series
The Middle Ages Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
456 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
26.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn682.N3r63 2017
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Nature Speaks is inspirational, since it offers new insights for the field of medieval literature, and the ambition and scope of the work are to be applauded., Kellie Robertson's book is an indispensable study of the idea of nature in the writings of Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Deguileville, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Lydgate. Revising the foundational work on nature and Platonism undertaken several generations ago, it offers an entirely new way of understanding the significance of nature in vernacular writing., At a moment when the human relationship to the natural world is deeply in need of attention and rearticulation, Kellie Robertson has given us a book that closely studies representations of the 'naturalness' of human beings in late medieval French and English literature. Robertson seeks to restore to view a pre-modern version of the human as internal to the natural world, a concept that creates a terrain for wideranging debate about the desires, compulsions, limits, and freedoms of human beings., "Kellie Robertson's book is an indispensable study of the idea of nature in the writings of Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Deguileville, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Lydgate. Revising the foundational work on nature and Platonism undertaken several generations ago, it offers an entirely new way of understanding the significance of nature in vernacular writing."--D. Vance Smith, Princeton University
Table of Content
A Note on Citations and Abbreviations Introduction: Medieval Poetry and Natural Philosophy PART I. FRAMING MEDIEVAL NATURE Chapter 1. Figuring Physis Chapter 2. Aristotle's Nature and Its Discontents PART II. ALLEGORIZING NATURE IN THE VERNACULAR Chapter 3. Jean de Meun and the Rule of Necessity Chapter 4. Allegory Without Nature: Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de vie humaine PART III. LOVE AND TH ELIMITS OF NATURAL REASON Chapter 5. Chaucer's Natures Chapter 6. "Kyndely Reson" on Trial: Translating Nature After Chaucer Epilogue: Nature's Silence: Humanism, Posthumanism, and the Legacy of Medieval Nature Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2017
Topic
Medieval, European / French, Subjects & Themes / Nature, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Poetry, History, Religion & Science, Subjects & Themes / General
Lccn
2016-047319
Dewey Decimal
809.9336
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Religion, Science, Philosophy
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