@article{1484384,
      recid = {1484384},
      author = {Stano, Simona.},
      title = {Critique of pure nature /},
      publisher = {SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU,},
      address = {[S.l.] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 128 pages) :},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {This book challenges the Western contemporary praise for  Nature. From food to body practices, from ecological  discourses to the Covid-19 pandemic, contemporary  imaginaries abound with representations of an ideal pure  Nature, essentially defined according to a logic of denial  of any artificial, modified, manipulated in short, cultural  aspect. How should we contextualise and understand such an  opposition, especially in light of the rich semantic scope  of the term nature and its variability over time? And how  can we if we actually can envisage alternative models and  approaches capable of better accounting for such richness  and variability? The author addresses these fundamental  issues, combining an initial theoretical problematisation  of the concept of nature and its evolution from classical  philosophy to the crucial changes occurred through the  Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Romanticism and the modern  era, finally considering recent insights in philosophy,  sociology, cultural anthropology and semiotics with the  analysis of its discursivisation from the iconography of  Mother Nature between the past and the present to the  representation of catastrophic events in fictional and  non-fictional texts, from clean eating and other popular  food trends to the ambivalence of the naked body between  its supposed natural ascription and its multiple cultural  characterisations. Thus she introduces a critique of pure  Nature, providing a systematic study of the way nature is  attributed meaning and value in some of todays most  relevant discourses and practices, and finally tracing a  possible path towards an internatural turn. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484384},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45075-4},
}