Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (731 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415931657 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the current president of the American Society of Environmental History. She is also the author of Radical Ecology and Earthcare (both published by Routledge). . Carolyn Merchant is Chancellor's Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics at the University of California, Berkeley
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.. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture
Merchant proposes a new narrative in which men, women and the earth work together, giving the needs of nature equal weight with the needs of humans. Merchant points out the flaws in many of these Garden of Eden narratives: the first scenario, for example, leads to a totally artificial world and ignores the fact that we can't dominate nature because it is chaotic, complex and unpredictable. Illus. In the latter scenario, the fallen Adam redeems himself by becoming the heroic American Adam who transforms nature a female object, or Eve into a fruitful garden. Yet she covers a wealth of information and sheds light on the thinking of generations of scientists, philosophers and environmentalists. not seen by PW. Unf
This book bites Fogline Reinventing Eden is pure environmental dribble. I agree with a previous review the book could have been at least a hundred pages shorter. If you like to draw your own conlusions don't read this book because the author is more than happy to insert her own conclusions.. "No Resolution" according to Tommy Turpolene. This book is an exposition of two contrasting forms of reclaiming Eden, one through restoring Nature, the other through creating a technological Eden. I agree with Amazon's review from Publishers Weekly. The final chapter is flawed, but to see why, we need to go back to Merchant's other work, one that leads to this one: The Death of Nature. Here