After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations [Hardcover]

Carolyn Merchants foundational 1980 book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution established her as a pioneering researcher of human-nature relations. Her subsequent groundbreaking writing in a dozen books and over one hundred peer-reviewed articles have only fortified her position as one of the most influential scholars of the environment. This book examines and builds upon her decades-long legacy of innovative environmental thought and her critical responses to modern mechanistic and patriarchal conceptions of nature and women as well as her systematic taxonomies of environmental thought and action. Seventeen scholars and activists assess, praise, criticize, and extend Merchants work to arrive at a better and more complete understanding of the human place in nature today and the potential for healthier and more just relations with nature and among people in the future. Their contributions offer personal observations of Merchants influence on the teaching, research, and careers of other environmentalists.

Acknowledgements. Foreword. Introduction. Part 1: Environmental Philosophy and Ethics and Ecofeminism. Chapter 1: Before The Death of Nature: Carolyn Iltis, the Carolyn Merchant Few People Know. Chapter 2: The Death of Nature or Divorce from Nature? Chapter 3: Carolyn Merchants The Death of Nature. Chapter 4: From a Partnership to a Fidelity Ethic. Chapter 5: Bewitching Nature. Chapter 6: Leading and Misleading Metaphors. Part 2: Environmental History. Chapter 7: Personal, Political, and Professional: The Impact of Carolyn Merchants Life and Leadership. Chapter 8: Carolyn Merchant and The Ecological Indian. Chapter 9: All Our Relations. Chapter 10: The Other Scientific Revolution. Chapter 11: Carolyn Merchant and the Environmental Humanities in Scandinavials$