The Ecology of Eden - Hardcover

Eisenberg, Evan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394577507 ISBN 13: 9780394577500

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

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Moving over the many different fields of science and the humanities, the author presents a learned, entertaining examination of how the myth of Eden and Adam and Eve's exile has affected Western civilization's actual dealings with nature. 25,000 first printing.

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s of years, we have dreamed of going back to a time, to a place--Eden, Arcadia, the Golden Age--to a paradise that we ourselves have never known. The Ecology of Eden is at once an inquiry into this dream and a startling new vision of humankind's role in nature.

Images of paradise arise from the down-to-earth facts of our lives--of our relationship with land, water, air, other creatures, and other people. In turn, these images of paradise reshape our lives. Tracing this interplay, Eisenberg recasts Western history as a tragicomedy whose heroes--Gilgamesh and Henry Ford, Virgil and Louis XIV, Lorenzo the Magnificent and Frank Lloyd Wright--struggle to regain a paradise lost. With elegance and refreshing wit, he shows how dreams of an earthly paradise both reflect and disguise our actual dealings with nature.

He illustrates, too, the shifting nature of nature itself: how alliances of species--most recently, alliances led by humankind--have continually remade the planet. Ranging

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0394577507
• ISBN 13: 9780394577500
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 612