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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... century 3.3 Lucas Cranach, Adam and Eve (1526) 3.4 St. Genevieve Guarding her Flock, French School, 16th century 3.5 Sir Walter Raleigh, The History ofthe World (1614) 3.6 Salomon van Til, Dissertationes philogico-theologicae (1719) 3.7 ...
... century 3.3 Lucas Cranach, Adam and Eve (1526) 3.4 St. Genevieve Guarding her Flock, French School, 16th century 3.5 Sir Walter Raleigh, The History ofthe World (1614) 3.6 Salomon van Til, Dissertationes philogico-theologicae (1719) 3.7 ...
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... century by René Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, and Isaac Newton among others, atomism along with experimentalism became incorporated into a mechanical materialism of corpuscles set in motion by a Christian God who created the world ex ...
... century by René Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, and Isaac Newton among others, atomism along with experimentalism became incorporated into a mechanical materialism of corpuscles set in motion by a Christian God who created the world ex ...
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... century, it seemed as though mechanistic physics had reached a state of near completion. Twentieth century physics, however, challenged mechanistic science. Relativity theory and quantum mechanics raised uncertainties at the level of ...
... century, it seemed as though mechanistic physics had reached a state of near completion. Twentieth century physics, however, challenged mechanistic science. Relativity theory and quantum mechanics raised uncertainties at the level of ...
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The Fate of Nature in Western Culture Carolyn Merchant. seventeenth century. Moreover, ideas that characterized nature as competitive or cooperative can be projected onto society and used to justify particular political regimes. A number ...
The Fate of Nature in Western Culture Carolyn Merchant. seventeenth century. Moreover, ideas that characterized nature as competitive or cooperative can be projected onto society and used to justify particular political regimes. A number ...
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... century, this story has propelled countless efforts by humans to recover Eden by turning wilderness into garden, “female” nature into civilized society, and indigenous folkways into modern culture. Science, technology, and capitalism ...
... century, this story has propelled countless efforts by humans to recover Eden by turning wilderness into garden, “female” nature into civilized society, and indigenous folkways into modern culture. Science, technology, and capitalism ...
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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