A Reenchanted World The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature
A Reenchanted World The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature
- ISBN 13:
9780805078350
- ISBN 10:
0805078355
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/14/2009
- Publisher: Metropolitan Books
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Summary
Author Biography
Read moreJames William Gibson is the author of Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America and The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. A frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and the winner of multiple awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Gibson is a professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He lives in Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
Read moreIntroduction: Call of the Wild | p. 1 |
Forms of Enchantment | |
Modernity and Its Discontents | p. 15 |
Animals Who Speak to Us | p. 38 |
Holy Lands | p. 68 |
Space Exploration, Gaia, and the Greening of Religion | p. 93 |
Eco-Warriors and Blood Sacrifice | p. 124 |
Troubles in Paradise | |
Loving It to Death | p. 145 |
Imitation Wildness and the Sacred Casino | p. 168 |
The Right-Wing War on the Land | p. 192 |
Hope Renewed | |
Fighting Back | p. 221 |
The Journey Ahead | p. 245 |
Notes | p. 255 |
Index | p. 291 |
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Read moreCopyright © 2009 by James William Gibson
Published in 2009 by Henry Holt and Company, LLC All rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright laws and reproduction is strictly prohibited. Permission to reproduce the material in any manner or medium must be secured from the Publisher.