Description
Reinventing Eden (2nd Ed.)
The Fate of Nature in Western Culture
Author: Merchant Carolyn
Language: English
Subject for Reinventing Eden:
Keywords
Carolyn Merchant; Environmental Sociology; Environmental History; sociology of the environment; garden; environment; Mainstream Recovery Narrative; Disorderly Order; Recovery Narrative; Camp Snoopy; Rst Century; Natura Naturata; Great American Desert; Partnership Ethic; Nature’s Droughts; African Eden; Oil On Canvas; Dense; Violated; Paleolithic Era; Paleolithic; Pristine; Young Men; Nonhuman Communities; Nonhuman Nature; Complex Adaptive Systems; Recreational Vehicles; Red Winged Blackbird; Paleolithic Mind; Human Mitochondrial DNA; Transgenic Fish
Publication date: 04-2013
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 04-2013
Support: Print on demand
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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.
Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword 1. A Garden Planet Part I: Genesis of the Recovery of the Recovery Narrative Narrative 2. The Fall from Eden 3. Recovering the Garden 4. From Wilderness to Civilization Part II: New World Edens Edens World Edens Edens 5. Adam as Hero 6. Eve as Nature 7. Colonizing Eden 8. Eden Commodified Part III: New Stories 9. Earth in Recovery 10. Order out of Chaos 11. Partnership Afterword