Sensitive witnesses: feminist materialism in the british enlightenment
Auteur :
Girten, Kristin M.
Éditeur :
Stanford University Press
ISBN :
9781503633032
Date de publication :
13 févr. 2024
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Cloth
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This book explores the feminist materialist practice of sensitive witnessing, establishing an alternate history of the emergence of the scientific method in the 18th century. Francis Bacon and other male natural philosophers regularly downplayed the embodied nature of their observations