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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... 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 a capitalist machine that transformed nature ...
... 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 a capitalist machine that transformed nature ...
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... labor becomes the major justification for the westward movement and the effort to remake indigenous Americans in the image of European culture. Eastern wilderness and western deserts are turned into gardens for American settlers ...
... labor becomes the major justification for the westward movement and the effort to remake indigenous Americans in the image of European culture. Eastern wilderness and western deserts are turned into gardens for American settlers ...
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... labor in the earth. Instead of giving fruit readily, the earth now extracts human labor. The blame for the Fall is placed on woman. The biblical Garden of Eden story has three central chapters: Creation, temptation, and expulsion (later ...
... labor in the earth. Instead of giving fruit readily, the earth now extracts human labor. The blame for the Fall is placed on woman. The biblical Garden of Eden story has three central chapters: Creation, temptation, and expulsion (later ...
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... labor-intensive way of life, their view of nature reflected this decline. Nature acting through God meted out floods, droughts, plagues, and disasters in response to humanity's sins or bountiful if 'v-fl' 51-5.- !_l'& -J-.-. .r ,r "r ...
... labor-intensive way of life, their view of nature reflected this decline. Nature acting through God meted out floods, droughts, plagues, and disasters in response to humanity's sins or bountiful if 'v-fl' 51-5.- !_l'& -J-.-. .r ,r "r ...
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... labor, and its innocent happiness (and, I would add, the potential for human partnership with the earth) become the primary human endeavor. The Eden narrative is, according to Henry Goldschmidt, “a story of originary presence which is ...
... labor, and its innocent happiness (and, I would add, the potential for human partnership with the earth) become the primary human endeavor. The Eden narrative is, according to Henry Goldschmidt, “a story of originary presence which is ...
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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