The Artificial and the Natural
Subtitle: An Evolving Polarity (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Contributors: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Editor); William R. Newman (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: October 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780262026208
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Social Classes; Science / History; Europe; Philosophy; Philosophy, European
Description: These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.