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EAN : 9782348082887
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 192
Size : 135 x 220 mm
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Theatres of the world

Collection : SH / Terrains philosophiques
Release date : 28/03/2024
For several decades now, philosophers and anthropologists have been asserting that "nature is no longer a backdrop".
So, just how did we come to consider it as such? An ornament, a backdrop, a static framework to support human activities?
Holding the world in the palm of your hand, within your thoughts, or...
For several decades now, philosophers and anthropologists have been asserting that "nature is no longer a backdrop".
So, just how did we come to consider it as such? An ornament, a backdrop, a static framework to support human activities?
Holding the world in the palm of your hand, within your thoughts, or on a stage are ways of reducing the vastness of the world to human scale. When confronted with a world that no longer had boundaries or a core, the philosophers, artists, and scientists of the seventeenth century invented small theatres to escape the vertigo.
 
By examining the close interweaving of aesthetic, scientific, and political scenes at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, this account explores the breakdown of Western modernity and its decline by focusing on specific places and artifacts from that period.
It examines the fabric of our modern conception of nature as a stable, fixed stage on which the human comedy is played out.
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EAN : 9782348082887
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 192
Size : 135 x 220 mm
La Découverte