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Reason, nature and the human being in the West Module documents

Outline bibliography

A text that takes you through central themes

Val Plumwood, Feminism & the Mastery of Nature London, 1993, Routledge

Principal interpretative literature

Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, (UK Ed) London 1970 Tavistock
John Passmore, Man's Responsibility for Nature, London 1974 Duckworth
Charles Taylor, The Sources of the Self, Cambridge, 1989, CUP
Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World, London 1983 Allen Lane

Some primary texts will also be drawn on directly, including, for example:

St. Thomas Aquinas : Summa Theologica Modern Library College Edition, ed. Anton C. Pegis, New York, 1948, Random House. On line edition of the 1920 print edition is here (unfortunately with every page framed by RC propoganda and fund-raising).

Francis Bacon, The New Organon and Related Writings [of Francis Bacon] , ed. F.H. Anderson, New York, 1960
Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear
John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Orig. Publ. 1690), (Everyman edition, ed. Yolton) London 1961 Dent
Gilbert White's History of Selbourne
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, Indianapolis (edition translated by R,N. Schwab) 1751 Bobbs-Merrill
Goethe, J.W. : Scientific Studies, (Suhrkamp edition) New York 1988 Suhrkamp Publishers

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