She described how the organic, female-centered vision of nature was replaced by a mechanistic, patriarchal order organized around the exploitation of natural resources. Instead of regarding the ideas of Descartes, Hobbes, and Bacon as laudable advances in human civilization, she linked them to the triumphal subjugation of nature and a more general paradigm that extended to the treatment of women. A historian of science, Merchant took a skeptical view of the Scientific Revolution, which lies at the heart of the prevailing narrative of Western progress. Agnes Denes’s Idealistic Projects Refuse to Accept Apocalypse as InevitableĮcofeminism was powerfully articulated in Carolyn Merchant’s 1980 book, The Death of Nature.
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