death of nature

social change

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ecologist

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American

ecofeminist

is the mechanization, power and control of the scientific revolution which in effect killed off organic assumptions (i.e. Animismistic or 'living') about the cosmos.

the new mechanical order and its associated values of power and control [ . . . ] mandate[d] the death of nature [ . . . ] The removal of animistic, organic assumptions about the cosmos constituted the death of nature the most far-reaching effect of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century (Merchant 1980: 190 and 193)

is impossible to prophesize. Conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia: both are wrong.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Carolyn Merchant

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