After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- After the Death of Nature: Introduction -- Depth of Influence -- Methodological Contributions to the Environmental Humanities -- Range o...
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Worthy, Kenneth: After the Death of Nature : Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations. - Milton : Routledge,c2018. - 9781138297302 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- After the Death of Nature: Introduction -- Depth of Influence -- Methodological Contributions to the Environmental Humanities -- Range of Influence -- Guide to the Book -- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics and Ecofeminism -- Environmental History -- The Politics of Landscapes, Embodiment, and Epistemologies -- Bibliography -- PART I: Environmental Philosophy and Ethics and Ecofeminism -- 1. Before The Death of Nature: Carolyn Iltis, the Carolyn Merchant Few People Know -- Why Feature the Work of Carolyn Iltis?: A Personal Introduction -- The Nine Carolyn Iltis Papers, 1970-1977 -- The Legacy of Carolyn Iltis -- Riffing on the Legacy of Carolyn Iltis -- The Metaphysics and Ontology of the Second Scientific Revolution -- So Why Are We Still Modern? -- Notes -- References -- 2. The Death of Nature or Divorce from Nature? -- The Great Divorce -- The Disembodied Privilege of Nature Disconnection -- Et Tu, Aristotle? -- Oppositional Aristotle -- Divorce, Physics, and Power -- Enter Modernity -- Divorce and an Ethical Quandary -- Finding the Human Place in Nature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Carolyn Merchant's The Death of Nature: Launching New Trajectories in Interdisciplinary Research -- Introduction -- Situating The Death of Nature -- A New Lens for Understanding History(ies) -- Ecology, Feminism, and Domination -- The Importance of Worldviews -- Some Reflections Moving Forward -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. From a Partnership to a Fidelity Ethic: Framing an Old Story for a New Time -- Narrating Places-What's Wrong With "Environment"? -- Searching for a Better Story's Setting -- Retelling an Old Story -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Bewitching Nature -- Toward an Ethic of Flourishing The Death of Nature: Mechanistic Foundations of Control -- Traditional Ecological Knowledge as a Type of Partnership Ethic -- Epistemic Justice as Foundational for an Ethic of Flourishing -- Conclusion: Toward Embodied Ethics and Epistemologies -- Notes -- References -- 6. Leading and Misleading Metaphors: From Organism to Anthropocene -- Organisms and Machines -- Survival of the Better Informed -- Ecosystems and Partnerships -- Entering the Anthropocene Epoch? -- Earth: Planet with Promise -- References -- PART II: Environmental History -- 7. Personal, Political, and Professional: The Impact of Carolyn Merchant's Life and Leadership -- Becoming an Environmental Historian -- Enter Carolyn Merchant -- Merchant Inspires New Directions in Research -- Building on Merchant's Foundations -- The Pieces Fall into Place -- Continued Inspiration -- Embracing Different Forms of Scholarship -- Merchant's Ongoing Influence -- References -- 8. Carolyn Merchant and The Ecological Indian -- The Disciplines -- Carolyn Merchant's Research and The Ecological Indian -- "Nature Transformed": The Summer Institutes -- Nature Transformed and The Ecological Indian -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9. All Our Relations: Reflections on Women, Nature, and Science -- Introduction -- Transcending the Mechanistic Paradigm: An Ecofeminist Orientation -- UC Berkeley History of Science: An Environmental Perspective -- In Search of an Alternative Paradigm -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 10. The Other Scientific Revolution: Calvinist Scientists and the Origins of Ecology -- From Calvin to Science -- Calvinists Establish Natural Science in North America -- Providence, Cosmos, Ecology -- Birth of Ecology -- Note -- References -- 11. Carolyn Merchant and the Environmental Humanities in Scandinavia -- A science-gender-environment sensation -- Nordic Nature, Nordic Model The Agenda for Global Environmental Governance -- Nordic Environmentalism Meets Vitalism -- TDN's Reception in Numbers -- How Can the Scandinavian Reception Be Explained? -- The Legacy Lives On: The Integrative Environmental Humanities -- Notes -- References -- PART III: The Politics of Landscapes, Embodiment, and Epistemologies -- 12. Landscape, Science, and Social Reproduction: The Long-Reaching Influence of Carolyn Merchant's Insight -- Landscapes as Social Reproduction -- Science and the Power of Place -- A Case Study of Science in Place: The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory -- The Making of an Environmental Historian -- Notes -- References -- 13. The Spiritual Politics of the Kendeng Mountains Versus the Global Cement Industry -- Introduction: The Consequences of Cement Production in Indonesia and Beyond -- Cement Production in Indonesia -- The Feminist Case of Cement Resistance in the Kendeng Mountains -- From Resource to Partnership -- Ecofeminist Ethics in Indonesia: A Brief History -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 14. Toward a Political Ecology of Environmental Discourse -- Entry -- Berkeley Years -- Beyond Berkeley -- Synthesis: Hindsight and Insights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 15. Environmental History and the Materialization of Bodies -- Narratives and Performativity -- Partnership and Agential Realism: Autonomous Nature -- Queer Environmental Narratives: Beyond Progress and Decline -- Notes -- References -- 16. A Mighty Tree is Carolyn Merchant -- The Background -- Reading The Death of Nature -- Similar Interests -- Inviting Carolyn to Australia -- My First Choice -- Visiting California -- Sailing and Ecofeminism -- The Consequences of Carolyn: A Unique Course -- The Karri Tree as Metaphor -- References -- Afterword -- Advent of the Anthropocene -- James Watt's Steam Engine The Steam Engine and the Second Law of Thermodynamics -- A New Story -- Science and Religion -- Ecological Ethics -- Ecofeminism -- Systems Theory -- The Ecological Indian -- Enriching TDN -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1351582917 |