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Merchant

Reinventing Eden

The Fate of Nature in Western Culture

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-415-93164-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Erscheinungstermin: 01.05.2003
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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.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780415931649
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-93164-9
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.05.2003
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2003
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 635 g
  • Seiten: 320
  • Format (B x H): 152 x 229 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
  • Nachauflage: 978-0-415-64425-9

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Merchant, Carolyn

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. A Garden Planet
Part I. Genesis of the Recovery Narrative
2. The Fall from Eden
3. Recovering the Garden
4. From Wilderness to Civilization
Part II. New World Edens
5. Adam as Hero
6. Eve as Nature
7. Colonizing Eden
8. Eden Commodified
Part III. New Stories
9. Earth in Decline
10. Order Out of Chaos
11. Partnership
Epilgue/Notes
Bibliography
Index

Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western culture from Columbus' voyages to today's tropical island retreats. Few narratives are so powerful - and, as Carolyn Merchant shows, so misguided and destructive - as the dream of recapturing a lost paradise. A sweeping account of these quixotic endeavors by one of America's leading environmentalists, ‘Reinventing Eden’ traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations in shopping malls, theme parks and gated communities.