4 : Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment. Daston, L. In Daston, L. & Vidal, F., editors, The Moral Authority of Nature, pages 100–126. University of Chicago Press, August, 2010. ![4 : Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex This chapter focuses on the ways in which value in nature was created in eighteenth-century natural history, with an emphasis on practices rather than theses: how certain regimens of experience (rather than proofs and arguments) established nature's values in an age that looked to nature as its guide in every realm, from the fine arts to weights and measures. Two aspects of how nature served as a source of value are in play here. First, how specific domains of the natural were redeemed as worthy objects of scientific study and personal dedication: because insects were deemed trivial or even disgusting, the efforts to elevate their status within natural history were attempts to turn dross into gold, to create value out of the least promising materials, hence the focus on Enlightenment entomology. Second, the mechanisms by which this value in specific naturalia was not merely asserted, but made into a felt, even a self-evident reality: the disciplines of attention practiced by the naturalists beatified even the most inauspicious objects.
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