The Resurgence of the Real Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World [Paperback]

In this insightful,beautifully written work, one of America's most important feminist ecological thinkers reflects on the roots of modernity in Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, Spretnak argues that an ecological postmodern ethos is emerging in the 1990s. the creative cosmos, and the complex sense of place. Both a sharp critique and a graceful performance of the art of the possible, The Resurgence of the Realchanges the way we think about living in the modern world.Charlene Spretnak,one of the founders of the ecofeminist movement, has written several books on social issues, ecological thought, and spiritual concerns, including Green Politics(1984) and States of Grace: The Recoveryof Meaning in the Postmodern Age(1991).