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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... Iohn's University “A sparkling, wide-ranging meditation on Western civiliZation's relationship to nature. Merchant calls for a new environmental ethic based on partnership. This learned and readable book asks each of us to live in ...
... Iohn's University “A sparkling, wide-ranging meditation on Western civiliZation's relationship to nature. Merchant calls for a new environmental ethic based on partnership. This learned and readable book asks each of us to live in ...
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... Iohn Gast, American Progress (1872) 6.4 Emanuel LeutZe, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way (1861) 6.5 Domenico Tojetti, The Progress ofAmerica (1875) 6.6 George Willoughby Maynard, Civilization (1893) 7.1 Pine Ridge Reservation ...
... Iohn Gast, American Progress (1872) 6.4 Emanuel LeutZe, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way (1861) 6.5 Domenico Tojetti, The Progress ofAmerica (1875) 6.6 George Willoughby Maynard, Civilization (1893) 7.1 Pine Ridge Reservation ...
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... Iohn Locke extracted secrets from nature and labor from humans. Mechanical materialism viewed nature as a billiard ball world of actions and reactions in which one particle transmitted motion to another and in which humans were cogs in ...
... Iohn Locke extracted secrets from nature and labor from humans. Mechanical materialism viewed nature as a billiard ball world of actions and reactions in which one particle transmitted motion to another and in which humans were cogs in ...
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... Iohn Simon Guggenheim Fellow, which allowed me to spend the 1996 year writing the book, and in 2001 as a Iohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow in the Ecological Humanities at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, which ...
... Iohn Simon Guggenheim Fellow, which allowed me to spend the 1996 year writing the book, and in 2001 as a Iohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow in the Ecological Humanities at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, which ...
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... Iohn Winthrop's Puritan garden to Thomas Hart Benton's manifest destiny—follow and re-create the progressive Recovery storyline. This powerful story of reclaiming and redeeming a fallen earth by human labor becomes the major ...
... Iohn Winthrop's Puritan garden to Thomas Hart Benton's manifest destiny—follow and re-create the progressive Recovery storyline. This powerful story of reclaiming and redeeming a fallen earth by human labor becomes the major ...
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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