[October 17 + 19] Wild nature and res publica
Section outline
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Text 5: Johann Krünitz, “On police regulations for beekeeping, and on the law of bees,” The essentials of bee history and beekeeping for the nature lover, farmer, and scholar (1774), 368-376. [original German]
Context 5: The well-regulated police state; cameralism and encyclopedism; wild nature and res publica; fitness and organic economy; natural philosophy in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
Assigned reading:Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, “Rival Ecologies of Global Commerce: Adam Smith and the Natural Historians,” The American Historical Review 115 (2010): 1342–63.
Presentations: Andreas, Filip -