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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... Creation, temptation, and expulsion (later referred to as the Fall). A woman, Eve, is the central actress, and the story's plot is declensionist (a decline from Eden) and tragic. The end result is a poorer state of both nature and human ...
... Creation, temptation, and expulsion (later referred to as the Fall). A woman, Eve, is the central actress, and the story's plot is declensionist (a decline from Eden) and tragic. The end result is a poorer state of both nature and human ...
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... creation of Eden on earth (the earthly paradise), and culminates with the vision of attainment of a heavenly paradise, a recovered garden. Paradise is defined as heaven, a state of bliss, an enclosed garden or park—an Eden. Derived from ...
... creation of Eden on earth (the earthly paradise), and culminates with the vision of attainment of a heavenly paradise, a recovered garden. Paradise is defined as heaven, a state of bliss, an enclosed garden or park—an Eden. Derived from ...
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... creation sequentially, first, of a real, material male body from dust and, second, woman from the body of the male. Hence Eve is second in the order of creation, implying the subjection of woman to man.18 But some feminists argue that ...
... creation sequentially, first, of a real, material male body from dust and, second, woman from the body of the male. Hence Eve is second in the order of creation, implying the subjection of woman to man.18 But some feminists argue that ...
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... creation stories leading to dominance or stewardship. The terms dominion, mastery, subduing, conquering, and ruling predominate in different translations of the Genesis 1 story. In order to have dominion, men and women must “be fruitful ...
... creation stories leading to dominance or stewardship. The terms dominion, mastery, subduing, conquering, and ruling predominate in different translations of the Genesis 1 story. In order to have dominion, men and women must “be fruitful ...
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Contents
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9 | |
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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