Ville contre-nature

In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much modern art: “How could he explain to them his prayer / that natu...

Ce livre s’inscrit dans le débat contemporain sur l’actualité de la philosophie des Lumières discutant en particulier, par le biais des images de Spinoza au XVIIIe siècle, des gran...

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies. Drawing together the work of le...

Chapter 26 covers how Sir Francis Galton was the first to apply the Shakespearian phrase “nature and nurture” to human individual differences. The so-called nature–nurture debate b...

An accessible ePub edition is available here   With 80% of wastewater globally discharged untreated and non-renewable energy resources rapidly depleti...