Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture - Softcover

Merchant, Carolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415931657 ISBN 13: 9780415931656

Verlag: Routledge, 2004

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Book by Merchant Carolyn

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Críticas

"[Merchant] covers a wealth of information and sheds light on the thinking of generations of scientists, philosophers, and environmentalists." -"Publishers Weekly "Fascinating and enjoyable reading. Merchant provides a richly documented analysis of the shifting rationales for dominating, degrading and reinventing the natural world." -Devra Davis, author of "When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution "In an age dominated by violence, conflict, disharmony, and terror, "Reinventing Eden offers an alternative to 'either you're with us or you're our enemy' logic and could help create harmony out of disharmony, a peaceful order out of violent chaos. A timely book for our troubled times and troubled thinking." -Vandana Shiva, author of "Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit "Intelligent, passionate, clearly written (and thus excellent for teaching) and challenging, they make powerful contributions to understanding both The Mess We're In and the ways in which we've thought about that mess. Carolyn Merchant is one of the world's most important environmental thinkers....This is a visionary book of intellectual history and ethics." -Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute "Merchant leads the reader away from the linear desert of the Enlightenment into the lush narrative complexity of an ecological Promised Land, where chaos theory ensures that humans will be partners with Nature." -"Technology and Culture

Reseña del editor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0415931657
• ISBN 13: 9780415931656
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320