{"product_id":"9783031450747","title":"Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress","description":"\u003ch1\u003eNumanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eStano, Simona\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003ecritique of pure Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, 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”. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2023-11-28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031450747\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-45075-4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 128\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44522835607692,"sku":"9783031450747","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031450747.jpg?v=1776006843","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031450747","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}