{"id":7849,"date":"2025-04-15T08:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgeaj.ch\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:36:09","slug":"the-alpine-enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgeaj.ch\/fr\/actualite\/the-alpine-enlightenment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alpine Enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kathleen Kete, The Alpine Enlightenment. Horace-B\u00e9n\u00e9dict de Saussure and Nature&rsquo;s Sensorium, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024, DOI: 10.7208\/chicago\/9780226835471. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>The Alpine Enlightenment<\/em>, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the world of the Genevan geologist, physicist, inventor, and mountaineer Horace-B\u00e9n\u00e9dict de Saussure. During his prodigious climbs into the upper ranges of the Alps, Saussure focused intensely on the natural phenomena he encountered <strong>\u2013<\/strong> glaciers, crevasses, changes in the weather, and shifts in the color of the sky <strong>\u2013<\/strong> and he described with great precision what he saw, heard, and touched. Kete uses Saussure\u2019s evocative writings, which emphasized above all physical engagement with the earth, to uncover not just how people during the Enlightenment <em>thought<\/em> about nature, but how they <em>experienced<\/em> it. As Kete shows, Saussure thought with and through his body: he harnessed his senses to understand the forces that shaped the world around him. In so doing, he offered a vision of nature as worthy of respect independent of human needs, anticipating present-day concerns about the environment and our shared place within it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, click on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyterbrill.com\/document\/doi\/10.7208\/chicago\/9780226835471\/html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this link<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Kete, The Alpine Enlightenment. Horace-B\u00e9n\u00e9dict de Saussure and Nature&rsquo;s Sensorium, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024, DOI: 10.7208\/chicago\/9780226835471. In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the world of the Genevan geologist, physicist, inventor, and mountaineer Horace-B\u00e9n\u00e9dict de Saussure. 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