Curated Research
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You will find here an annotated bibliography with suggestions for further readings and research material in general on the various aspects of the project. You may search this page by subject areas, authors, titles.
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Nature: Course Notes from the College de France
Merleau-Ponty, one of the greatest 20th Century thinkers of perception, the body, and its operation in the natural world, gives a course on the history of nature and its relationship with human freedom and thinking. These are notes on the course…
La Mettrie's L'Homme Machine
Vartanian establishes the authoritative French text of La Mettrie's L'Homme Machine, and several essays on its background, claims, its materialism, and its place in 18th Century science.
Linnaeus, Natural History, and the Circulation of Knowledge
Contributors examine the various techniques, materials and methods that originated within the ‘Linnaean workshop’: paper technologies, publication strategies, and markets for specimens. Fresh analyses of the reception of Linnaeus’s work in Paris,…