Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western CultureThis revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth. |
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... find its place also as a classic along with Merchant's earlier studies.”—Wendy Donner, Organization and Environment “Merchant uses the distant and near past to explore the changing conception of nature in Western society's future ...
... find its place also as a classic along with Merchant's earlier studies.”—Wendy Donner, Organization and Environment “Merchant uses the distant and near past to explore the changing conception of nature in Western society's future ...
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... find a new story for the twenty-first century. Narratives form our reality. We become their vessels. Stories find, capture, and hold us. Our lives are shaped by the stories we hear as children; some fade as we grow older, others are ...
... find a new story for the twenty-first century. Narratives form our reality. We become their vessels. Stories find, capture, and hold us. Our lives are shaped by the stories we hear as children; some fade as we grow older, others are ...
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... find its treasures. For those who fail, dire consequences may result. These larger stories propel those who act within them to reinvent the planet as a new world garden. Rich and poor alike buy into the mainstream recovery story and act ...
... find its treasures. For those who fail, dire consequences may result. These larger stories propel those who act within them to reinvent the planet as a new world garden. Rich and poor alike buy into the mainstream recovery story and act ...
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Contents
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Part II New World Edens | 79 |
Part III New Stories | 159 |
Epilogue | 209 |
Afterword | 211 |
Notes | 217 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 271 |
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