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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... Recovery of Eden story is the mainstream narrative of Western culture. It is perhaps the most important mythology humans have developed to make sense of their relationship to the earth. Internalized by Europeans and Americans alike ...
... Recovery of Eden story is the mainstream narrative of Western culture. It is perhaps the most important mythology humans have developed to make sense of their relationship to the earth. Internalized by Europeans and Americans alike ...
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... Recovery Narrative itself. Do not the earth and its people need a new story ... mainstream story leads to a totally artificial earth; the environmental ... recovery of wilderness implies a humanly depauperate earth. The tensions between ...
... Recovery Narrative itself. Do not the earth and its people need a new story ... mainstream story leads to a totally artificial earth; the environmental ... recovery of wilderness implies a humanly depauperate earth. The tensions between ...
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... mainstream RecoveryNarrative as it comprises European culture's development ... Recovery storyline. This powerful story of reclaiming and redeeming a fallen ... Narrative with its two storylines—one of progress, the other of decline—has ...
... mainstream RecoveryNarrative as it comprises European culture's development ... Recovery storyline. This powerful story of reclaiming and redeeming a fallen ... Narrative with its two storylines—one of progress, the other of decline—has ...
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... narrative had merged with advances in science, technology, and capitalism to form the mainstream Recovery Narrative. The story begins with the precipitous fall from Eden followed by a long, slow, upward attempt to recreate the Garden of ...
... narrative had merged with advances in science, technology, and capitalism to form the mainstream Recovery Narrative. The story begins with the precipitous fall from Eden followed by a long, slow, upward attempt to recreate the Garden of ...
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... stories, as cause and/or victims of decline and, along with men, as restorers ... Recovery begins with the Garden of Eden as told in the Bible. The Christian ... mainstream narrative shaping and legitimating the course of Western culture ...
... stories, as cause and/or victims of decline and, along with men, as restorers ... Recovery begins with the Garden of Eden as told in the Bible. The Christian ... mainstream narrative shaping and legitimating the course of Western culture ...
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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