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Publisher Summary 1
Nature in Modernity: Servant, Citizen, Queen or Comrade explores the origins and implications of the mastery of nature agenda within Western culture and argues that there is a long-standing parallel "shadow" tradition grounded instead in mutuality, respect and reciprocity. This is explored in a series of chapters that focus on our hunter-gatherer heritage, the shift to a more sedentary and agricultural life and the subsequent emergence of mastery of self and nature as the dominant cultural objective. The impact of this mastery agenda on the natural environment is explored and a case made that our current ecological crisis has its origins in this tradition of mastery. A counter tradition is examined, identifying a range of cultural tools grounded in alternative traditions, tools that can be used to create a culture of care, mutuality and reciprocity in which it will be logical to welcome nature in all its complexity as a fellow citizen
Publisher Summary 2
After several years of teaching university courses on the connection between nature and human culture, Duguid (humanities, Simon Fraser U., British Columbia) here examines ideas about nature expressed in literature and art that underlie practices that are leading to environmental disaster. Within sections on the fall from grace, coming to sense and encountering sensibility, and rethinking culture and nature, he consider such topics as an anthropological reverie on being at home in the forest, the paleolithic revolution reconsidered, Athens and Jerusalem, oceanic feelings in Vienna 1927-31, sympathetic noble savages, the biology of empathy, and the contribution of ecofeminism. Annotation 漏2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Table Of Contents:
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue: A Glance at the Mess We're In xiii
Introduction: Reflections on the Primitive and the Modern 1(22)
Anthropocentrism 12(2)
Ecocentrism 14(2)
Knowledge, Values and Action 16(1)
Chapters that Follow 17(6)
ONE THE FALL FROM GRACE 23(86)
1 What are We by Nature 25(38)
A Quest for Human Nature 27(9)
At Home in the Forest---An Anthropological Reverie 36(4)
The Search for Human Origins 40(4)
The Hunter-Gatherers (or Gatherer-Hunters) 44(7)
A Reverie on Savage Children 51(2)
A More Positive Spin 53(1)
Concluding Thoughts 54(9)
2 What Are We By Choice, Chance and Context? 63(46)
Divergent Paths 65(2)
The Paleolithic Revolution Reconsidered 67(3)
The Neolithic 70(8)
Rousseau's Neolithic---The Early Transition 78(1)
Athens and Jerusalem 79(4)
The Citizen 83(6)
Socratism 89(4)
Shadowy Greeks and Romans 93(5)
Conclusion 98(11)
TWO COMING TO SENSE AND ENCOUNTERING SENSIBILITY 109(72)
3 Thinking the World to Pieces 111(34)
Oceanic Feelings in Vienna---1927-1931 113(6)
Mastery 119(26)
4 Recurrent Sensibility: On Golden Ages, Noble Savages and a Modern Primitivism 145(36)
Oceanic Feelings Contested Again 146(4)
A Diversion---On Going Back or Going Forward by Looking Back 150(2)
Thinking about A State of Nature 152(9)
On Golden Ages 161(6)
Sympathetic Noble Savages 167(3)
Conclusion 170(11)
THREE RE-THINKING CULTURE AND NATURE 181(74)
5 Finding Ecological Sensibility in a Mechanistic Culture 183(46)
The Three Epiphanies 186(6)
Oceanic Feelings Again 192(2)
The Biology of Empathy 194(7)
Ecocentrism 201(4)
Some Praxis Implications 205(14)
Conclusion 219(10)
6 New Insights About Culture and Nature 229(26)
Four Important Current Trends 235(2)
Re-Assessing Happiness 237(4)
The Contribution of Ecofeminism 241(3)
Nature and the New Physics 244(4)
Asian Philosophies 248(1)
Nature---Mother, Comrade, Queen or Citizen 249(6)
CONCLUSION 255(38)
Toward Citizen Nature 266(7)
Extending Our Reach 273(20)
Bibliography 293(16)
Index 309
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue: A Glance at the Mess We're In xiii
Introduction: Reflections on the Primitive and the Modern 1(22)
Anthropocentrism 12(2)
Ecocentrism 14(2)
Knowledge, Values and Action 16(1)
Chapters that Follow 17(6)
ONE THE FALL FROM GRACE 23(86)
1 What are We by Nature 25(38)
A Quest for Human Nature 27(9)
At Home in the Forest---An Anthropological Reverie 36(4)
The Search for Human Origins 40(4)
The Hunter-Gatherers (or Gatherer-Hunters) 44(7)
A Reverie on Savage Children 51(2)
A More Positive Spin 53(1)
Concluding Thoughts 54(9)
2 What Are We By Choice, Chance and Context? 63(46)
Divergent Paths 65(2)
The Paleolithic Revolution Reconsidered 67(3)
The Neolithic 70(8)
Rousseau's Neolithic---The Early Transition 78(1)
Athens and Jerusalem 79(4)
The Citizen 83(6)
Socratism 89(4)
Shadowy Greeks and Romans 93(5)
Conclusion 98(11)
TWO COMING TO SENSE AND ENCOUNTERING SENSIBILITY 109(72)
3 Thinking the World to Pieces 111(34)
Oceanic Feelings in Vienna---1927-1931 113(6)
Mastery 119(26)
4 Recurrent Sensibility: On Golden Ages, Noble Savages and a Modern Primitivism 145(36)
Oceanic Feelings Contested Again 146(4)
A Diversion---On Going Back or Going Forward by Looking Back 150(2)
Thinking about A State of Nature 152(9)
On Golden Ages 161(6)
Sympathetic Noble Savages 167(3)
Conclusion 170(11)
THREE RE-THINKING CULTURE AND NATURE 181(74)
5 Finding Ecological Sensibility in a Mechanistic Culture 183(46)
The Three Epiphanies 186(6)
Oceanic Feelings Again 192(2)
The Biology of Empathy 194(7)
Ecocentrism 201(4)
Some Praxis Implications 205(14)
Conclusion 219(10)
6 New Insights About Culture and Nature 229(26)
Four Important Current Trends 235(2)
Re-Assessing Happiness 237(4)
The Contribution of Ecofeminism 241(3)
Nature and the New Physics 244(4)
Asian Philosophies 248(1)
Nature---Mother, Comrade, Queen or Citizen 249(6)
CONCLUSION 255(38)
Toward Citizen Nature 266(7)
Extending Our Reach 273(20)
Bibliography 293(16)
Index 309
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