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Science " aimable " et populaire, art d'effeuiller la marguerite, la botanique, devenue partie prenante de la recherche en biologie, a longtemps été le lieu d'affrontement de grandes querelles philosophiques auxquelles prirent part Leibniz et Rousseau, Goethe, Coleridge ou Condorcet. Le système sexuel développé dans la Philosophie botanique de Linné n'offusqua pas seulement la très puritaine Encyclopaedia Britannica, il inspira aussi diverses classifications zoologiques, voire - à Auguste Comte - une classification des sciences au parfum végétal bien marqué. Quant à Charles Darwin, on ne s'étonnera pas de le trouver ici penché sur primevères et orchidées, trouvant dans la botanique quelques idées-forces de sa théorie. Au terme de cette excursion très rousseauiste, on se prend à penser que, s'il n'y eut jamais, comme le disait Kant, de " Newton du brin d'herbe ", le végétal eut cependant de patients observateurs, de hardis théoriciens et de merveilleux penseurs.

Botany --- Botanique --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Science --- Philosophie des sciences --- --Philosophy --- HIS History & Biographies --- history --- history of botany --- philosophy --- herbaria --- France --- systematics --- Philosophy --- Science - Philosophy

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General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Ecology --- Ecology. --- History. --- 241.65*7 --- -Ecology --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Theologische ethiek: natuur; ecologie --- History --- 241.65*7 Theologische ethiek: natuur; ecologie --- Ecology - History. --- Écologie --- Philosophie de la nature. --- Histoire.

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The world of insects is at once beneath our feet and unfathomably alien. Small and innumerable, insects surround and disrupt us even as we scarcely pay them any mind. Insects confront us with the limits of what is imaginable, while at the same time being essential to the everyday functioning of all terrestrial ecosystems.In this book, the philosopher and historian of science Jean-Marc Drouin contends that insects pose a fundamental challenge to philosophy. Exploring the questions of what insects are and what scientific, aesthetic, ethical, and historical relationships they have with humanity, he argues that they force us to reconsider our ideas of the animal and the social. He traces the role that insects have played in language, mythology, literature, entomology, sociobiology, and taxonomy over the centuries. Drouin emphasizes the links between humanistic and scientific approaches-how we have projected human roles onto insects and seen ourselves in insect form. Caught between the animal and plant kingdoms, insects force us to confront and reevaluate our notions of gender, family, society, struggle, the division of labor, social organization, and individual and collective intelligence. A remarkably original and thought-provoking work, A Philosophy of the Insect is an important book for animal studies, environmental ethics, and the history and philosophy of science.

Insects --- Hexapoda --- Insecta --- Pterygota --- Arthropoda --- Entomology --- Philosophy.