Against Nature by Lorraine Daston
A concise intellectual history that challenges the idea of a fixed, self-evident nature by tracing how scientists, philosophers, and cultural authorities have constructed and contested the boundary between the natural and the unnatural; it shows how shifts in epistemic practices and moral norms—from early modern teleology to modern experimental objectivity and statistical reasoning—reconfigured what counts as natural and how appeals to nature have been used to justify scientific authority and social orders.
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