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050 00 $aBD581$b.M3197 1993
082 00 $a113$220
100 1 $aMarshall, Peter H.,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83171735
245 10 $aNature's web :$brethinking our place on earth /$cPeter Marshall.
260 $aNew York :$bParagon House,$c1994.
263 $a9309
300 $axiii, 513 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 490 -501) and index.
505 2 $a1. Taoism: The Way of Nature -- 2. Hinduism: The Way of Understanding -- 3. Buddhism: The Way of Compassion -- 4. Ancient Egypt: Waters on High -- 5. Early Greece: Gaia -- 6. The Romans: The Way of the Soldier -- 7. Celtic Mysteries: Neither This nor That -- 8. The Judaeo-Christian Tradition: Man's Dominion over Nature -- 9. Christianity: The Good Shepherd -- 10. Islam: The Goodly Tree -- 11. North American Indians: The Way of the Eagle -- 12. Alchemy: Sacred Philosophy -- 13. The Scientific Revolution: Nature on the Rack -- 14. Philosophers of the Brave New World -- 15. The Philosophical Counter-Revolution -- 16. The Enlightenment: The Disenchantment of Nature -- 17. To Follow Nature -- 18. Primitivism and the Noble Savage -- 19. Changing Sensibilities -- 20. The Romantic Mind and Imagination -- 21. Romantic Cosmology -- 22. Utopian Seers -- 23. Darwinism and the Web of Life -- 24. The New World of Ecology -- 25. Philosophers of the Earth -- 26. Time and Being: Modern Organic Philosophy.
505 0 $a27. The Cosmic Joy of the New Science -- 28. The Resurrection of Gaia -- 29. Environmental Ethics -- 30. Deep Ecology versus Social Ecology -- 31. Towards a Libertarian Ecology -- 32. Ecotopia Revisited.
520 $aThis powerful book provides the first comprehensive overview of the intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from ancient religions and philosophies to modern science and ethics - and synthesizes them into a new philosophy of nature in which to ground our moral values and social action. It traces the origins and evolution of the dominant worldview that has built our industrial, technocratic, man-centered civilization, and brought us to the current ecological crisis.
520 8 $aAt the same time, it uncovers an alternative cultural tradition in the world's different religions and philosophies and describes how these ideas are now surfacing and coalescing to form an ecological sensibility and a new vision of nature which recognizes the inter-relatedness of all living things.
520 8 $aFinally, this book integrates these varied traditions with modern physics and the science of ecology into a larger philosophical whole that provides the environmental movement with a comprehensive vision of an organic and sustainable society in harmony with nature.
520 8 $aAs ecological disasters continue to threaten our planet, becoming worse with every passing moment of indifference, it has become clear that we must take action. We must change our relationship with nature, and return to the days when our lives were intimately connected to and dependent upon the natural world. Nature's Web lays the foundations for that change by explaining where our complex ideas about nature come from, why they are wrong, and what we can do to change them.
650 0 $aPhilosophy of nature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101004
650 0 $aEcology$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040755
852 00 $bglx$hBD581$i.M3197 1994