Keywords
Subtitle: nature.
Series: The keywords series
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Nature
Other titles: Nature.
Description: . Scholars from Africa, the Arab World, China, Europe, India, and the United States share their vision of how nature has been shaped by the cultural and philosophical context of their respective societies, and affected by modernization and Western technology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Africa : human nature as historical process; title: The idea of nature in America; title: The conceptions of nature in Arabic thought; title: Zi ran (nature) : a word that restructures thought and life; title: Fables of nature; title: On the concept of nature.