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The Parable of the Cats
Many years ago I published a translation of the Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe’s famous “The Parable of the Cats” (from his book On the Tragic, 1941), with a short introduction by David Rotheberg and myself. I still find Zapffe’s parable thought provoking.
Peter Wessel Zapffe, “The Parable of the Cats,” Terra Nova 2:1 (1997), 151-153.
从包豪斯到生态建筑 From Bauhaus to Ecohouse
从包豪斯到生态建筑
佩德 安克尔
From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design
Chinese edition of my book
佩德 安克尔所著的《从包豪斯到生态建筑》以哈佛大学设计学院绿色现代课程内容为基础，聚焦于生态学思想与设计的融合，从英国复兴包豪斯的历史开始，至美 国人致力于维护生态世界的愿望止，总结了从20世纪30年代到80年代冷战结束为止生态设计的复杂历史。著名设计师拉斯洛·莫霍伊—纳吉，生物学家、生态 学家朱利安·赫胥黎，包豪斯学校创始人沃尔特·格罗皮乌斯，穹顶建筑师巴克敏斯特·富勒等人与生态建筑的关系都在本书中加以讨论。《从包豪斯到生态建筑》 并不仅为设计史学家和建筑史学家所撰写，同样是科学史和环境史学家的重要读物。
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Wissenschaft als Urlaub: Eine Geschichte der Ökologie in Norwegen
“Wissenschaft als Urlaub: Eine Geschichte der Ökologie in Norwegen” in Tue Greenfort: Eine Berggeschichte, (Dornbirn: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2012), 26-57.
Translation of Peder Anker, “Science as a Vacation: A History of Ecology in Norway,” History of Science, 45:4 (2007), 455-479.
My review of The Illusory Boundary
Martin Reuss; Stephen H. Cutcliffe (Editors). The Illusory Boundary: Environment and Technology in History.
Isis, 103:2 (2012), 388-389.
My review of Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.
Isis, 102:3 (2011), 589-590.
Edvard Munchs Aulamalerier: Fra kontroversielt prosjekt til nasjonalskatt
Edvard Munchs Aulamalerier: Fra kontroversielt prosjekt til nasjonalskatt (Edvard Munch’s Aula Paintings: From Controversal Project to National Treasure), with Patricia G. Berman, (Oslo: Messel Forlag, 2011).
[Norwegian] I 1911 skulle Universitetet feire sitt hundreårsjubileum. I den anledning ble Aulaen på Karl Johans gate bygget som en storslått gave og markering av institusjonen. De elleve maleriene som pryder Aulaen hang ikke der ved åpningen, men ble alle malt mellom 1909 og 1916 i en atmosfære av kulturpolitisk kontrovers. Munchs Aulamalerier ble malt etter intense interne dragkamper blant kunstekspertisen, for så å forårsake en like spent offentlig debatt om deres kunstneriske verdi. I dag er de en nasjonalskatt. Denne antologien dokumenterer malerienes dramatiske historie fra de første skisser til den tekniske forfatning de nå befinner seg i snart hundre år etter tilblivelsen
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My review of The Culture of Nature in Britain
Peter Harman, The Culture of Nature in Britain
Environmental History, Oct 2011, 727-728
Scandinavia: Norway
“Scandinavia: Norway,” Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, vol. 2, (Detroit: Gale, 2008), 233-236.
Outer Space & Moon Treaty
“Outer Space” and “Moon Treaty,” in The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Jan Christian Smuts
“Jan Christian Smuts,” New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, (Detroit: Gale, 2007), 483-4.
Peder Anker 