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Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe (Hardcover)
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Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe (Hardcover)
Series: Environment and Society
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In Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe, Jean-Marie
Kauth shows how counter-ecological metaphors sprung from the
cosmology of the Copernican Revolution influence us still in
unexpected, maladaptive ways, nurturing conceptions of the world
that are not only incorrect but enabling of ecocide. She argues
that although, of course, no one cause can be responsible for the
kinds of environmental degradation we are seeing, grasping these
underlying paradigms may help us to alter our thinking and make the
radical transformations needed to counter the forward motion of our
capitalist, post-industrial society, which continues hurtling
toward civilizational suicide. She further argues that although not
offered as a simple antidote, and with the potential evils of
medieval hierarchy acknowledged, there is merit in re-envisioning
the cosmos with the holistic, spherical imagination of the Middle
Ages, figured in circles, cycles, epicycles, equants: a whole,
enclosed, integrated world. This book offers a new perspective on
the power of images and metaphors to shape the way humans see the
universe and their own role in it.
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