Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction : Doing What Comes Naturally 1
4. PART ONE: VALUES
5. Introduction 21
6. 1 : Measuring Authority, Authoritative Measures: Hesiod’s Works and Days 25
7. 2 : Nature in Person: Medieval and Renaissance Allegories and Emblems 50
8. 3 : Burning The Fable of the Bees: The Incendiary Authority of Nature 74
9. 4 : Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment 100
10. 5 : The Erotic Authority of Nature: Science, Art, and the Female during Goethe’s Italian Journey 127
11. 6 : Nature and Bildung: Pedagogical Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany 155
12. 7 : Economics, Ecology, and the Value of Nature 182
13. PART TWO: NECESSITY AND FREEDOM
14. Introduction 205
15. 8 : Trouble in the Earthly Paradise: The Regime of Nature in Late Medieval Christian Culture 207
16. 9 : Nature on Trial: Acts “Against Nature” in the Law Courts of Early Modern Germany and Switzerland 232
17. 10 : Onanism, Enlightenment Medicine, and the Immanent Justice of Nature 254
18. 11 : Ants and the Nature of Nature in Auguste Forel, Erich Wasmann, and William Morton Wheeler 282
19. 12 : “To Become As One Dead”: Nature and the Political Subject in Modern Japan 308
20. 13 : Liberation through Control in the Body Politics of U.S. Radical Feminism 331
21. PART THREE. BOUNDARIES
22. Introduction 357
23. 14 : Complexio/Complexion: Categorizing Individual Natures, 1250 –1600 361
24. 15 : Human Experimentation in the Eighteenth Century: Natural Boundaries and Valid Testing 384
25. 16 : Nature and Nation in Chinese Political Thought: The National Essence Circle in Early-Twentieth-Century China 409
26. 17 : When Pollen Became Poison: A Cultural Geography of Ragweed in America 438
27. 18 : Three Roots of Human Recency: Molecular Anthropology, the Refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO Response to Auschwitz 466
28. List of Contributors 491
29. Index 495