Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western CultureRoutledge, 12.03.2013 - 304 Seiten This 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. |
Inhalt
| 1 | |
| 9 | |
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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam and Eve agriculture Aldo Leopold American animals argues Baird Callicott biblical California Carolyn Merchant century chaos chaos theory Christian civilization climate change complex conservation created creation decline depicted desert domination dominion earth ecological Edenic emerging Enlightenment environment environmental environmentalists European Eve’s Fall fallen female feminist fertile fields filled final find fire first fish flood flowers flowing forest fruit Gaia Gaia hypothesis garden Garden of Eden gender Genesis global God’s goddess human humanity’s Ibid idea Indians Iohn James Lovelock labor land landscape living Locke’s mainstream Recovery Narrative male mall mechanistic science modern mother mountains Muir nature’s nonhuman nature ofthe original paradise park partner partnership ethic pastoral philosophers plants profit progress quotation reflect Reinventing restore rivers social society soil story symbolized theory Thoreau tion Torah transformed trees University Press Val Plumwood virgin Western culture wild wilderness William Cronon women York