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End of Nature

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.449
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2002English
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This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and selected to trace the growth of ideas about nature and the natural environment of mankind. The term nature in this context has to do with the varying ways in which the physical world has been conceived as the habitation of mankind, a source of imperatives for the collective organization and conduct of human life.

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