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The Alpine Enlightenment: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium (The Life of Ideas) - Tapa blanda

Kete, Kathleen

 
9780226835488: The Alpine Enlightenment: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium (The Life of Ideas)
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ISBN 10: 0226835480 ISBN 13: 9780226835488
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2024

Sinopsis

A study of the experience of nature in the eighteenth century based on the life of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–99).
 
In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the world of the Genevan geologist, physicist, inventor, and mountaineer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. During his prodigious climbs into the upper ranges of the Alps, Saussure focused intensely on the natural phenomena he encountered―glaciers, crevasses, changes in the weather, and shifts in the color of the sky―and he described with great precision what he saw, heard, and touched. Kete uses Saussure’s evocative writings, which emphasized above all physical engagement with the earth, to uncover not just how people during the Enlightenment thought about nature, but how they experienced it. As Kete shows, Saussure thought with and through his body: he harnessed his senses to understand the forces that shaped the world around him. In so doing, he offered a vision of nature as worthy of respect independent of human needs, anticipating present-day concerns about the environment and our shared place within it.

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Kathleen Kete is the Borden W. Painter, Jr., ’58/H’95 Professor of European History at Trinity College in Connecticut.

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University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2024
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ISBN 10 
0226835480
ISBN 13 
9780226835488
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