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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... landscapes, and muddy the air and water. Romantics reacted sharply. They began to tell a new story of what went wrong—a story of decline from pristine nature. Explorers, writers, poets, and painters proclaimed their love for untouched ...
... landscapes, and muddy the air and water. Romantics reacted sharply. They began to tell a new story of what went wrong—a story of decline from pristine nature. Explorers, writers, poets, and painters proclaimed their love for untouched ...
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... landscape as well as human hopes, desires, and lives. Within the broad arc of the Recovery Narrative, nature itself has played a major role in affecting outcomes. Despite the efforts of humans to control the natural world, contingencies ...
... landscape as well as human hopes, desires, and lives. Within the broad arc of the Recovery Narrative, nature itself has played a major role in affecting outcomes. Despite the efforts of humans to control the natural world, contingencies ...
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... landscape. The use of the word before in the phrases that described God making “every plant of the field before it was in the earth,” and “every herb of the field before it grew” signify the pasturage and field crops of the post-Edenic ...
... landscape. The use of the word before in the phrases that described God making “every plant of the field before it was in the earth,” and “every herb of the field before it grew” signify the pasturage and field crops of the post-Edenic ...
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... landscape into which Adam and Eve are expelled is described by Evan Eisenberg in The Ecology ofEden. By 1100 B.C.E. the Israelites were farming the hills of Iudea and Samaria in Canaan with ox-drawn scratch plows and planting wheat ...
... landscape into which Adam and Eve are expelled is described by Evan Eisenberg in The Ecology ofEden. By 1100 B.C.E. the Israelites were farming the hills of Iudea and Samaria in Canaan with ox-drawn scratch plows and planting wheat ...
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... landscape. The beasts and herbs of Genesis 1 are described as “very good,” as are the cattle, fowl, beasts, and trees in the Genesis 2 Garden of Eden. The dust of Genesis 2, from which “man” was formed and which was watered by “a mist ...
... landscape. The beasts and herbs of Genesis 1 are described as “very good,” as are the cattle, fowl, beasts, and trees in the Genesis 2 Garden of Eden. The dust of Genesis 2, from which “man” was formed and which was watered by “a mist ...
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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