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Making Wonderful
- Ideological Roots of Our Eco-Catastrophe
Engelsk Paperback

Making Wonderful

- Ideological Roots of Our Eco-Catastrophe
Engelsk Paperback

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In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology in the West energized an economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic rulers, analyzing how respect for custom and tradition gave way to the dominance of top-down rational planning and organization. Then in response came a highly attractive myth of an eventual future rid of all of humankind''s ills, one in which life would be “made wonderful.” Originating in Zoroastrianism and, through Jewish apocalyptic works, flowing into early Christianity, this myth produced utopian beliefs that set the West apart from the other civilizations. Tweedale shows how these beliefs became popular among Western elites in the early modern period and eventually resulted in the distinctly Western doctrine of progress. This doctrine, an almost religious faith in the capacity of science and technology to improve human life, released economic expansion from traditional constraints and has led to our current environmental emergency. Exploring sources from philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas, Making Wonderful is for all readers who are intellectually curious about the roots of our eco-catastrophe.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
464
ISBN-13:
9781772126242
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1772126241
Udg. Dato:
8 mar 2023
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
University of Alberta Press
Oplagsdato:
8 mar 2023
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