![]() ![]() This text remains a major contribution to environmental history, philosophy, and ethics, and as such is relevant across academia. As a pioneering work of ecofeminism, this book further exposed how the domination of nature accompanied aggressive efforts to dominate women, reducing both to inert objects and priming the ground for their dual exploitation to enable the emerging capitalist order – an exploitation that continues to today in evolving forms.Īs Merchant demonstrates, the modern understanding of humans as separate from, and superior to, the rest of nature is a perception that is now widespread and unquestioned – though renewed challenges are mounting in light of the current climate change crisis. Written in 1980 by the science and environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, the book revealed how the introduction of ‘modern science’ both introduced new inventions and notions of progress to Western culture, and atomized and mechanized nature, thus fracturing human-nature relations. The book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution remains a profoundly influential book of radical ecological thought. Carolyn Merchant’s 1980 book The Death of Nature will prompt us to reflect on the current need to build collective pathways toward a more socio-ecologically sustainable future. On Thursday December 8th, 2022, colleagues from all six Faculties at the University of Copenhagen will celebrate ecofeminist thought. ![]()
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