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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... depicted as a woman. Artemis and Isis were personified as the goddess Natura during the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution. George Economou has detailed the evolution ofnature in his book, The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature ...
... depicted as a woman. Artemis and Isis were personified as the goddess Natura during the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution. George Economou has detailed the evolution ofnature in his book, The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature ...
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... depiction of Scientia removing the veil from a bare-breasted Natura appears on the reverse side of the Nobel prize medal in physics. Designed by Erik Lindberg in 1902, both goddesses are labeled with their names, implying that science ...
... depiction of Scientia removing the veil from a bare-breasted Natura appears on the reverse side of the Nobel prize medal in physics. Designed by Erik Lindberg in 1902, both goddesses are labeled with their names, implying that science ...
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... depicts a long, slow decline from a prehistoric past in which the world was ecologically more pristine and society was more equitable for all people and for both genders. The decline continues to the present, but the possibility and ...
... depicts a long, slow decline from a prehistoric past in which the world was ecologically more pristine and society was more equitable for all people and for both genders. The decline continues to the present, but the possibility and ...
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... depicted as an enclosed garden. The religious path to a heavenly paradise, practiced throughout the early Christian ... depicts a redeemed earth and redeemed humans. “The scene Figure 2.3 After the expulsion from Eden, Adam is forced The ...
... depicted as an enclosed garden. The religious path to a heavenly paradise, practiced throughout the early Christian ... depicts a redeemed earth and redeemed humans. “The scene Figure 2.3 After the expulsion from Eden, Adam is forced The ...
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... depicts a comic or happy state of human existence, while the Fall exemplifies a tragic state. Stories and ... depicted as a river. In tragic stories, the human world is an anarchy of individuals and the animal world is filled ...
... depicts a comic or happy state of human existence, while the Fall exemplifies a tragic state. Stories and ... depicted as a river. In tragic stories, the human world is an anarchy of individuals and the animal world is filled ...
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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