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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... original garden by restoring nature and creating sustainability. The two stories seem locked in conflict. Played out to its logical conclusion, each narrative negates human life: the mainstream story leads to a totally artificial earth ...
... original garden by restoring nature and creating sustainability. The two stories seem locked in conflict. Played out to its logical conclusion, each narrative negates human life: the mainstream story leads to a totally artificial earth ...
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... original oneness in a heavenly paradise. The biblical Fall and Recovery story has become the mainstream narrative shaping and legitimating the course of Western culture. The Bible offers two versions of the Christian origin story that ...
... original oneness in a heavenly paradise. The biblical Fall and Recovery story has become the mainstream narrative shaping and legitimating the course of Western culture. The Bible offers two versions of the Christian origin story that ...
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... original, “untouched” nature and enters into history. Nature is now a fallen world and humans fallen beings. But this Fall through the lapsarian moment sets up the opposite—or Recovery—moment. The effort to recover Eden henceforth ...
... original, “untouched” nature and enters into history. Nature is now a fallen world and humans fallen beings. But this Fall through the lapsarian moment sets up the opposite—or Recovery—moment. The effort to recover Eden henceforth ...
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... original oneness—is male, while in the garden the woman (Eve) is subordinate to the man (Adam). The fall from the garden is caused by the woman, Eve; Adam is the innocent bystander, forced to pay the consequences as his sons, Abel and ...
... original oneness—is male, while in the garden the woman (Eve) is subordinate to the man (Adam). The fall from the garden is caused by the woman, Eve; Adam is the innocent bystander, forced to pay the consequences as his sons, Abel and ...
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... original gender equality or partnership. Genesis 2, on the other hand, depicts the creation sequentially, first, of a real, material male body from dust and, second, woman from the body of the male. Hence Eve is second in the order of ...
... original gender equality or partnership. Genesis 2, on the other hand, depicts the creation sequentially, first, of a real, material male body from dust and, second, woman from the body of the male. Hence Eve is second in the order of ...
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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