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How Nature Became the Other: Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern Natural Philosophy

  • Daston L
Springer Netherlands, (1995), 37-56
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-0673-3_3
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Abstract

Metaphors demand a chasm to bridge: connections joined between neighboring categories or kindred concepts hardly qualify as figurative. It is because we are persuaded that such a chasm yawns between the natural and the human that we so often dignify (or revile) the...

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Daston, L. (1995). How Nature Became the Other: Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern Natural Philosophy. In Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors (pp. 37–56). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0673-3_3

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