Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture

Merchant, Carolyn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415931649 ISBN 13 : 9780415931649

Editeur : Routledge, 2003

Book by Merchant Carolyn

Biographie de l'auteur :

Carolyn Merchant is Chancellor's Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics at the University of California, Berkeley. 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).

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.