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Usher Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-88094-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
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Ancient Guides to Living with Nature
E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-108-88094-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability, important topics for humans today and in the future. With chapters running the gamut of Greek and Roman experience – from the Presocratics and Plato to Roman agronomy and the Benedictine Rule – Plato's Pigs brings together unlikely bedfellows, both ancient and modern, to reveal surprising connections. Lively prose and liberal use of anecdotal detail, including an afterword about the author's own experiments with sustainable living on his sheep farm in Vermont, add a strong authorial voice. In short, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind book that is sure to be of interest to anyone working in Classics, environmental studies, philosophy, ecology, or the history of ideas.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction. Environmental philology; 1. Debts to nature; 2. Anaximander for the anthropocene; 3. Heraclitus and the quantum; 4. A city for pigs; 5. Mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon; 6. Cynics and stoics; 7. Roman revolutions; 8. Community rule; Afterword. Works and days and then some.