Description
Cook’s magisterial study explores Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s abiding interest in botany and botanical science and the significance of his botanical writings in the context of the history of plant science. She gives a wide-ranging yet exquisitely nuanced portrayal of the evolution of botanical thought, both in the case of Rousseau himself and for the period as a whole. An essential text for cultivating an understanding of the imbrication of eighteenth-century botany in philosophies of nature, knowledge, and the self.
Publisher
Voltaire Foundation: University of Oxford, 2012
Contributor
Meeker, Natania
Language
English
Type
Book