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Genetically modified food, art in the form of a phosphorescent rabbit implanted withjellyfish DNA, and robots that simulate human emotion would seem to be evidence for the blurringboundary between the natural and the artificial. Yet because the deeply rooted concept of naturefunctions as a cultural value, a social norm, and a moral authority, we cannot simply dismiss thedistinction between art and nature as a nostalgic relic. Disentangling the cultural roots of manycurrent debates about new technologies, the essays in this volume examine notions of nature and artas they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers' ideas ofphysis and techne [note: bar over e] and Aristotle's designation of mimetic arts tonineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first century biomimetics. These essays--by specialists ofdifferent periods and various disciplines--reveal that the division between nature and art has beencontinually challenged and reassessed in Western thought. In antiquity, for example, mechanicaldevices were seen as working "against nature"; centuries later, Descartes not only claimedthe opposite but argued that nature itself was mechanical. Nature and art, the essays show, aremutually constructed, defining and redefining themselves, partners in a continuous dance over thecenturies.ContributorsBernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Horst Bredekamp, John Hedley Brooke, Dennis DesChene, Alan Gabbey, Anthony Grafton, Roald Hoffmann, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, William R. Newman,Jessica Riskin, Heinrich Von Staden, Francis Wolff, Mark J. Schiefsky Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent isProfessor of History at the University of Paris X. She is the author of A History of Chemistry andother books. William R. Newman is Ruth Halls Professor of History and Philosophy of Science atIndiana University, Bloomington. He is the coeditor of Secrets of Nature (MIT Press, 1999) andauthor or editor of several other books.
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Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent is Professor of History at the University of Paris X. She is the author of A History of Chemistry and other books.
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