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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... nature. Merchant calls for a new environmental ethic based on partnership. This learned and readable book asks each of us to live in nature in new ways. A partnership ethic leads to greater health for individuals and for our planet ...
... nature. Merchant calls for a new environmental ethic based on partnership. This learned and readable book asks each of us to live in nature in new ways. A partnership ethic leads to greater health for individuals and for our planet ...
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... Nature, one of which sees nature as redeemed through technology and the other debased through technology. Today humans face a radical crisis of a debased nature that calls for a new synthesis of these narratives to conserve nature as we ...
... Nature, one of which sees nature as redeemed through technology and the other debased through technology. Today humans face a radical crisis of a debased nature that calls for a new synthesis of these narratives to conserve nature as we ...
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... nature? And what is its meaning in Western culture? Nature in its most encompassing sense represents both human and nonhuman nature. As an abstraction, what we would today call nonhuman (or more-than-human) ... nature's secrets are Foreword.
... nature? And what is its meaning in Western culture? Nature in its most encompassing sense represents both human and nonhuman nature. As an abstraction, what we would today call nonhuman (or more-than-human) ... nature's secrets are Foreword.
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... nature's secrets are hidden from human knowledge and must be discovered. Artemis, at whose temple he deposited his book of knowledge, like her Egyptian counterpart Isis, personified a Nature who harbored secrets to be revealed, unveiled ...
... nature's secrets are hidden from human knowledge and must be discovered. Artemis, at whose temple he deposited his book of knowledge, like her Egyptian counterpart Isis, personified a Nature who harbored secrets to be revealed, unveiled ...
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... nature and people. The world created and promoted by philosophers such as Francis Bacon and Iohn Locke extracted secrets from nature and labor from humans. Mechanical materialism viewed nature as a billiard ball world of actions and ...
... nature and people. The world created and promoted by philosophers such as Francis Bacon and Iohn Locke extracted secrets from nature and labor from humans. Mechanical materialism viewed nature as a billiard ball world of actions and ...
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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