How nature taught man to know, imagine, and reason
Subtitle: how language and literature recreate nature's lessons
By: Eduard Hugo Strauch.
Series: American university studies.; vol. 29
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Philology -- Philosophy.
Description: This exposition retraces the four distinct lessons early man derived from his intimate contact with nature as individual and as species. Nature taught man four archetypal lessons centered on omnipresent phenomena: camouflage, metamorphosis, the limits of life, and symbiosis. Abundant evidence for these modes of perception, imagination, and thinking is found in ancient and modern writing.

This text describes each lesson nature taught man and explains how each is distinctly present in language, writing strategies, literature, poetics, and literary theories. Together, these modes compose the epistemology man has used over the millennia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-316).