The Natural and the Moral Order: What’s to Blame?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Processional Poem: If we could know XI
4. Introduction XIII
5. Reason Expanded
6. Is Reason Defensible? 3
7. The Natural and the Moral Order: What’s to Blame? 13
8. Rationality for Dummies? 19
9. Objectivity and the Theory of the Archetype 26
10. Thus We See: Objectivity and Archaeology 38
11. Love = 46
12. Medieval Miracles as Evidence 55
13. Myth, Reason, and Rationality 62
14. Nature Enframed
15. Dwelling Under the Sea, or the Wonder of a Glass Sponge 71
16. Miss Fielde’s Nests 77
17. Revisiting Mein Weltbild 88
18. Knowledge and Rational Action: The Economization of Environment, and After 93
19. Galilei’s Spiral Scribbles, Campanella and Fludd 100
20. Heraclitus Fragment B123 DK 117
21. Some Comments on Emergence 124
22. Anthropomorphism and Science Fiction 136
23. Empirical Observation and Embodied Nature in Sixteenth-century South India 142
24. History Refracted
25. Limits of Localism: The Scale of Sight 155
26. Discipline(s) 171
27. Good Company: Spinoza the Traditionalist and Some Unexpected Friends 178
28. Historicizing Novelty 186
29. Literary Knowledge between Translation and Migration: The Case of Dostoevsky in Israel 195
30. Crab Nebulous 206
31. Reason, Nature, Metaphor 215
32. A Page at the Orchestra 221
33. Athanasius Kircher on the Beauty of Knowing Everything 228
34. The Note 234
35. Epilogue: “Man, That Woman Can Talk!” 247
36. Recessional Poem: “Josefa de Ayala/Josepha von Óbidos (1630–1684): Stilleben, ca. 1660–1670” 253
37. Contributors 254
38. Curriculum Vitae of Lorraine Daston 261
39. Index of Authors and Subjects 278