Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy

by Kellie Robertson

What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is a perverse form of anthropocentrism. And yet nature's voice proved a powerful and durable ethical tool for premodern writers, many of whom used it to explore what it meant to be an embodied creature or to ask whether human experience is independent of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248651
• ISBN13: 9780812248654
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"