This bilingual collection of essays (in English and French) looks at entomology and representations of insects from a scientific, historical, philosophical, literary and artistic viewpoint.
The contributions illustrate the various responses to the insect world that have developed over centuries, concentrating upon the alien qualities of insects a radical otherness that has provoked admiration and fear, or contributed to the debates over humans superiority over animals, especially during the evolutionary theory controversy, or in today s ecological debates. Insects not only helped shape...